One of the most useful skills we learned from Viaweb was not getting our hopes up. We probably had 20 deals of various types fall through. After the...

"Ramen profitable" means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses. It's not rapid prototyping for business models...

Running a startup can be demoralizing. That is certainly true. I've been there, and that's why I've never done another startup. The low points in a...

It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

I don't have to worry about having employee morale based around the stock price and the absolutely useless drivel that may appear in Yahoo chat rooms....

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.