Kahlil Gibran: "Work is love made visible. The goal is not to live forever; the goal is to create something that will." - Salim Ismail

When assessing a startup for funding, investors typically categorize three major risk areas: Technology risk: Will it work? Market risk: Will people buy the product? Execution risk: Is the team able to function and pivot as needed?

100 percent of new job creation has come via startups and entrepreneurs.

Indeed, the rate of change is so high everywhere these days that you now must assume that someone will disrupt you, and often from a direction you least expect. As Steve Forbes sees it, "You have to disrupt yourself or others will do it for you." This applies to every market, geography and industry