There are so many startups out there RAISING money. I don't think this is a bad THING. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. MAKERS are MAKING.

The bigger a COMPANY gets, the more people are involved in DECISIONS, the slower decisions get made. Look, the WHOLE theory of startups is that three MOTIVATED people can go and do SOMETHING that every company can't.

Cool innovation MIGHT happen in STARTUPS, but they often lack the resources or the DEEP expertise in the problems they WANT to ADDRESS.

Jon Miller would be AMAZING for Yahoo because he is extremely GOOD at building display advertising BUSINESSES and BUYING young startups.

Venture-backed startups with billion DOLLAR market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be RARE mythical creatures that few ENTREPRENEURS will EVER ride.

Startups are often very undercapitalised, but I FOUND that to be very BENEFICIAL because it forces you not to throw money at problems. INSTEAD, you LEARN all the NUTS and bolts of what you're doing and become an expert.

I HEAR so many STARTUPS talking about how they can raise VC INSTEAD of questioning whether they NEED it in the first place.

For almost the first year of The Muse's life, I WOULD do 5 to 8 networking EVENTS a week. And I don't necessarily think that's the right PATH for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn't come into STARTUPS with any network.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a PRODUCT to launch within a rapidly shortening RUNWAY of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big MISTAKE: NOBODY serious about their business should put culture in the CORNER.

Everything's mobile these days. Let's GO mo-bile! But really, that's just an IQ TEST. When you see bold NEW STARTUPS with nothing but a desktop strategy, you know they just don't get it, and you move on.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and LOTS of it. STUFF that makes US change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

We NEED to ENCOURAGE INVESTORS to invest in high-technology STARTUPS.

Before I started Code for AMERICA, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small TEAMS trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 EVENTS, it was web startups during times of enormous OPPORTUNITY and investment.