“It’s almost always harder to raise capital than you thought it would be, and it always takes longer. So plan for that.

“When you cease to dream you cease to live.

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

“For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. “Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually, just do it and correct course along the way.

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

“The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

“I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

“Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

“Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.

“Fail often so you can succeed sooner.

“My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

“Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.