La mayor parte del valor de una empresa tecnológica se generará a diez o quince años vista. - Peter Thiel

Startups operate on the principle that you need to work with other people to get stuff done, but you also need to stay small enough so that you actually can. Positively defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future. A new company’s most important strength is new thinking: even more important than nimbleness, small size affords space to think.

U biznisu, novac je važan ili je najvažniji. Monopolisti si mogu dopustiti da razmišljaju i o drugim stvarima; ne-monopolisti to ne mogu.

As a good rule of thumb, proprietary technology must be at least 10 times better than its closest substitute in some important dimension to lead to a real monopolistic advantage. Anything less than an order of magnitude better will probably be perceived as a marginal improvement and will be hard to sell, especially in an already crowded market.