Nothing creates cool like scarcity.

When a person has work, she has income and can achieve financial self-sustainability. She can prioritize her family's health and education. Her standing in the community is lifted, and so is her confidence.

I previously worked as the director of VisionSpring, a non-profit dedicated to distributing glasses to people in need.

No matter what product or service your company offers, people have a way of finding out if you are genuinely providing value.

We've built our own technology platform in-house, which operates our website and powers our retail stores.

Regardless of what you plan to use it for, the goal should always be to raise money right before you need it. You don't want to get into a situation where you need cash and you're unable to raise it - or you're unable to raise it on favorable terms. As with any negotiation, you want to raise from a position of strength.

During times of plenty - when venture funding is abundant and startups multiply like rabbits - every business looks like a winner.

At the end of the day, an entrepreneurial journey is all about de-risking: How can you spend the least amount of time and money to accomplish your goal? The more information you can gather, the more comfortable you'll be investing time and money into a particular offering.

If you don't plan to dive in and dedicate all of your time to your startup, you probably shouldn't be looking for funding. It's hard enough asking for money when you believe in an idea; asking for money to fund something you're iffy about is ten times more strenuous.

Asking for money can be especially intimidating.

Just because one company is able to succeed with a specific model doesn't mean others will follow with equal or any success.

I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.

At Warby Parker, we ask ourselves a number of questions when deciding whether or not to partner up with a designer, or a nonprofit or brand. Is the potential collaboration new? Is it unexpected? Will it result in something worth talking about over dinner? Will it do good? Will it introduce us to a new audience?

Creativity is always intense.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

You just take things as they come.

Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.

It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free them up to do as much fun stuff, so you have to just go for it and, again, trust the people around you and not be seemingly guarded and numb. Throw caution to the wind a bit.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

I like to make decisions based on things I'm interested in doing, not what seems like the next move in my quote-unquote career.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving. If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

Whether it's a double take or a spit take or an extra-long pause before a reaction or a line, I try to be as cognizant as possible about the technical end of it. So I think the physical stuff works easier for me than maybe for others who are more just going on instinct.

I like the tube more than the NY subway though, you've got cushioned seats.

I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Starship Troopers was great. It was great fun to work on something with blue screens and big budget special effects. Denise Richards was nice to look at too, of course.

Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

I'm a very lucky man in this chapter of my professional life, 'cause I get to do jobs with wildly different skill sets.

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

Mr. Steven Bochco is a very wise man. After a many-monthed nationwide search to find a precocious teenage doctor, he hired me.

You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.

I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.

I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't mean that as the political thing to say, but he's a nice guy.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

When I auditioned for the show, I didn't realize it was an MTV production, which is going to make for really good tunes during the episodes, if nothing else.