Until you hear “No,” you haven’t been turned down. - Reid Hoffman

The real value creation comes when innovative technology enables innovative products and services with innovative business models.

A good career plan accounts for the interplay of the three gears — your assets, your aspirations, and the market realities.

This is a crossroads many entrepreneurs will recognize. Entrepreneurs always have to solve side problems along the way to realizing their original vision. And every so often, you solve a problem that’s so vexing and so prevalent that your side solution becomes more valuable than your original idea.