Entrepreneurship is a kind of management. No, you didn’t read that wrong. - Eric Ries

Startups are different: too much budget is as harmful as too little — as countless dot-com failures can attest — and startups are extremely sensitive to midcourse budgetary changes.

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

Startup, I have always been a bit of a troublemaker at the companies at which I have worked, pushing for rapid iteration, data-driven decision making, and early customer involvement.