Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle..

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on..

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were..

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't….

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before..

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at..

My skills weren't that I knew how to design a floppy disk, I knew how to design a printer interface, I knew how to design a modem interface; it was t….

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost si….

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers..

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will….

Cofounders will endure so much together that their relationship is often compared to a marriage..

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality..

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product..