The problem most people make with their media presence is they're trying to craft a media presence as opposed to just consistently publishing who they are.

It's very important as a startup to get early press because, although it may not be a large number of people, having a 'Fast Company' story - some of those people that read it are going to be your next employees and hires, your next investors.

For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.

Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.

Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created.

The only time I felt a little too exposed was for a week then I started life-streaming for a couple of hours a day on Qik and Ustream. It became very much like the film 'We Live in Public.'

I find very few folks are watching their Facebook feed, some are watching their Twitter feed, and all of them are watching their email box. So, while social networks are nice, email is still the killer application.

I syndicate my Twitter activity to Facebook, but I get very little traffic from it.

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

The only way to make podcasting a real big business would be if you could somehow get the top seven podcasters to team up and make a mega-network.

Very, very few podcasts have made it to scale, and to me, that says this business will never be big.

It turns out a human being in two, three or four hours can build a search result that's much better than Google, Yahoo or Ask.

I find podcasting an enticing space.

I am not trying to model my career to be a one-hit wonder.

I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

Google indexes the world's information.

I'm not an investor in Meerkat, sadly, or, Periscope - I missed both of those - however, I do have a lot of inside information.

The key to building a sustainable content company is to control costs.

Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'