I can't tell you the number of people who pitched something and have no idea whom they are pitching it to. They don't know the background of the investor.

It's much easier to get a reception from someone if there is an introduction versus randomly trying to get in front of people.

What I'm looking for in my interaction is critical thinking on the part of the person pitching to me.

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

Boulder is a very smart community.

My view was, if I didn't like Boulder, I'd keep going west, except I never really wanted to live in the Bay Area.

My wife is a writer. She grew up in Alaska. She told me she was moving to Boulder and that I could come with her if I wanted to. We were married at the time, so I chose to come with her.

While the line between stress, deep anxiety, and depression often blurs, most entrepreneurs struggle with broad mental health issues at various points in their lives.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

When I was in my mid-20s, running a successful company and clinically depressed, I was afraid to talk to anyone other than my psychiatrist about it. I was ashamed that I was even seeing a psychiatrist.

I'm hugely intrinsically motivated and have always believed that I'm fueled and motivated by learning.

When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.

I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

I would say my whole universe is probably categorized as guerilla marketing. For a long time, I had a line which was, 'Whenever I hear the word 'marketing,' it makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.'

I'm always fascinated by the dedicated monitors in a hospital. Non-standard cables, funny button shapes, odd LED colors, and lots of extra controls.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

In entrepreneurial circles, it's clear to me that violence, hatred, and discrimination - or whatever you want to label it - is another category where we need to pay attention to disruption before it changes the world in ways we don't want it to.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

It's time to focus on what I care about and not let the noise take over my brain.

Twitter has always been that refreshing place where I can quickly find out what is going on in my tech world. I follow mostly entrepreneurs and VCs - some who I know and some who I don't know. I have a few companies in my feed. But no newspapers, no magazines, and no mainstream media.

I don't read newspapers or watch the news on TV, deliberately to avoid the noise.

While it's trendy to outsource your accounting to a third party, once you hit a certain size, it's dangerous.

If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.