When screening engineers from other companies, its smart to value engineers from great companies more than those from mediocre companies.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.