Expectations and entitlements don't cost a thing except for those who enable it.
In any kind of negotiation, your ability to walk away is your strongest tool.
Entrepreneurship is throwing yourself off a cliff and building a plane on the way down.
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.
When bootstrapping, you need to find a team that's willing to work for nothing and spend their off hours with you.
Make something someone specific needs, launch fast, let users show you what to change, change it, repeat the last two.
Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.
The web is a social movement and I like to think of a new company as a manifesto.
Do not tell me, "You know what you should do..." Instead ask me, "Is there any reason why I should not?"