When you start a new company, you have to do it all. Yes, all of it.

Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

You know, as most entrepreneurs do, that a company is only as good as its people. The hard part is actually building the team that will embody your company culture and propel you forward.

Have a go-to pump up song. Mine is Shakira's 'Waka Waka' from the 2010 World Cup (don't judge). Play it only when you're ready to turn into your most badass self.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

Get your product in front of actual, living, breathing strangers. Your college roommate's approval does not mean there's market demand.

Done right, a performance review is one of the best opportunities to encourage and support high performers and constructively improve your middle- and lower-tier workers.

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

One of the top causes of startup death - right after cofounder problems - is building something no one wants.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

I would go to sleep with headphones on. My mom and pop - they would have music loud enough to shake the walls.

Following the script is one thing, but the unique way in which you deliver your lines is what makes them your own.

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

I got deeply involved with the Trotskyists. I assumed simply that my enemy's enemies were my friends.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it.