Success is not delivering a feature; success is learning how to solve the customer’s problem. - Eric Ries

I strongly recommend that startup teams be completely cross-functional, that is, have full-time representation from every functional department in the company that will be involved in the creation or launch of their early products. They have to be able to build and ship actual functioning products and services, not just prototypes. Handoffs and approvals slow down the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and inhibit both learning and accountability. Startups require that they be kept to an absolute minimum.

entrepreneurship should be considered a viable career path for innovators inside large organizations.

When private equity firms acquire hospitals, they cut clinical staff to boost profits — and emergency room death rates rise 13%.