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  1. “Monitoring is the new co-founder.”

    garrettdimon.com
    georgesduverger

  2. “If you really can build something disruptive - you won’t need to tell the world in advance”

    jesseddy.tumblr.com
    georgesduverger

  3. “one day, in decades to come, we’ll be asked about these years, and what we did at the birth of the internet era. The decisions you make today and tomorrow, will be the answer you will give to your grandchildren. Make it an answer you can be proud of.”

    milesfitzgerald.tumblr.com
    georgesduverger

  4. “she basically said she didn't have time to deal with ideas, and just to tell her who was fighting with who.”

    news.ycombinator.com
    arach

  5. “it’s not building the product, it’s building the company that builds the product.”

    techcrunch.com
    missrogue

  6. “The only WHOs I care about are the customers, and the only WHATs I focus on are their needs and desires, and how to best deliver value to them”

    blog.amirkhella.com
    missrogue

  7. “In the mean time, some punk who sketched out a one page business model (see Alexander Osterwalder's What is the Business Model Canvas?) and built a Minimum Viable Product is already to market and has locked up $2 million in venture capital.”

    www.quora.com
    missrogue

  8. “I believe that self discipline is a myth. If I can’t get excited about something, I can’t motivate myself to do it. I’d rather spend my time working on things that excite me. And when I work on an exciting idea, I want to work on it all the time. I literally have to force myself to leave it for few hours to go to bed, and can’t wait to wake up to work on it again. On the other hand, if I am trying to discipline myself to work on something I don’t like, half of the energy is already wasted in self discipline. Not much left for creativity and execution. It’s a high friction process that I try to avoid altogether by choosing the most exciting idea.”

    blog.amirkhella.com
    georgesduverger

  9. “First and foremost, a start-up puts you on an emotional rollercoaster unlike anything you have ever experienced. You flip rapidly from day-to-day – one where you are euphorically convinced you are going to own the world, to a day in which doom seems only weeks away and you feel completely ruined, and back again. Over and over and over. And I’m talking about what happens to stable entrepreneurs. There is so much uncertainty and so much risk around practically everything you are doing. The level of stress that you’re under generally will magnify things incredible highs and unbelievable lows at whiplash speed and huge magnitude. Sound like fun?”

    www.fourhourworkweek.com
    missrogue

  10. “Let’s be honest: the state of venture in Canada is abysmal and entrepreneurship, in software at least, is not much better. Just look at the CVCA data; they have been compiling Canadian venture industry data since 2001 and I can’t find a single report that shows positive returns – even in the years where the S&P was up 30%. Since 1997 I have watched a lot of people that shouldn’t be VCs fund bad ideas from people that shouldn’t be startup entrepreneurs, and fail. Most of those people, on both sides of the table, are doing something else now.”

    nextmontreal.com
    missrogue