If there is a single thing, a single activity and a single metric you should care about when building a business (or a sustainable open project – which you should run like a business anyway), it is cash-flow.
It's time to kick the idea that everyone, including VCs, will steal your idea. Don't be scared to put all your cards on the table and don't expect a formal agreement in return.
Are you wasting time optimizing the wrong thing? Talking to the wrong customers and partners? Measuring the wrong metrics? Read this post to learn how to avoid this in your start-up.
There is no silver bullet to assure the success of your start-up. Least of all, pining for that $10k - $50k angel or VC investment. Read this post about getting scrappy and working for it.
Too many entrepreneurs waste countless hours (and dollars) trying to come up with the "perfect" name for their new business. Pascal Finette says "Don't Bother".
Watch: Pascal Finette, Portfolio Manager at Google Giving divulges his secrets of mustering the courage to take risks that could result in failure, how to keep the main thing the main thing and why your numbers are bullshit.
Language and your use of it is one of the most powerful instruments you have to create specific outcomes. For instance, you have a certain amount of time each day, where you choose to spend it demonstrates your true priorities.
We all know (or should know) that having a support network around you makes a world of difference. So get yourself a mentor and make the relationship work.