Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one.

Taking a great new idea with an entrepreneurial team that wants to create something significant and trying to build a real company is what is interesting.

Repeat after me: 'There is a very limited amount of easy money.'

One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.

I think 'Shoe Dog' by Phil Knight is the best memoir I've ever read by a business person.

I wish more LPs would blog to help VCs and entrepreneurs understand them better.

Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.

I'm glad I get to live in the United States of America.