Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

A living fool is worth less than a dead hero.

Its better to Convince by words rather than your Hands. We should not degrade our Standard for others. - Merlin Thomas

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

I'm from New York. I have a non, neutral accent. It can go any way you want.

Once we rid ourselves of traditional thinking we can get on with creating the future.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Concentrating for four hours will wear you out mentally.

While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.