Top Highlights

• Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.
• You are the first investor in your business idea. You invest with time, which is more valuable than money.
• Traditional accounting metrics, like revenue, profit, and return on investment (ROI), aren’t helpful at the early stages because they all track numbers that are negative or near zero.
• There is a running joke in business schools that the best spreadsheets get funded.
• She knows that the top reason products fail is not a failure to build out the product, but rather a failure to build a repeatable and scalable business model.