These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.

If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius.

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.

I really think the Uberfication of everything is a trend that I didn't expect to be coming this fast. I mean, every single thing you want to do in your life, people are building services to take all the pain out.

Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone.

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

I learned from my past.

CNN was crazy to think they could fill 24 hours with news - let alone around the world in 10 to 20 languages. Reuters or AP with a thousand people around the world covering news? Crazy.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

To get people to switch from Google, you have to offer something twice as better. But the truth is, the world doesn't actually need better-quality search. I think we've got good enough search.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

Commercial real estate is really a black box: its super opaque, and it's hard to get the information.

The blogosphere is real, and it can be really harsh on fakes... so, if you're a phoney, you're going to get your bell rung.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

Everyone's drunk on the term 'blog.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Google indexes the world's information.

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.

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

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

I find podcasting an enticing space.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

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.

No one has looked at news from new atomic units of content, like a tweet on Twitter.