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.

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

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.

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say.I don't plan it.When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...

[On being told their loquacious, domineering host was 'outspoken':] By whom?

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips.

This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

That's a song about reaching deep inside yourself where you can completely be who you are.