Build and they will come’ is not a strategy, it’s a prayer.

Greatest risk is not development of new product, but development of customers and markets

Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.

Using the Product Development Waterfall diagram for Customer Development activities is like using a clock to tell the temperature. They both measure something, but not the thing you wanted.

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.

In a startup no facts exist inside the building, only opinions.

A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

Rather than seek happiness living my life to please the will of others, I will seek happiness where I know it can be found - living my life to please the will of my heart.

A lot of visions remain visions and never come to realization

Curiosity is the key to creativity.

There's only one thing that can save a man from madness and that's uncertainty.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

While many governments and well-meaning individuals have redefined marriage, the Lord has not.

We've all been should upon enough.

Hamburger bad fries bad, coca-cola bad….There I said it. Drink your water people.

Think not ambition wise, because 't is brave.