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It is hard to get people to go off script, particularly if they are not speaking in their native language, or trained to speak in front of a microphone. In order to get people to open up and talk about their challenges, you need to be empathetic and sincere. Being an objective and detached observer does not work. You have to get outside of your comfort zone and share your own hopes and fears and insecurities.

Consumer startups are a lottery ticket. Take Twitch.tv vs Atrium for example.

In the case with Twitch, nobody believed there was a market in streaming video over the internet. Even as founders they were skeptical there was business. On the bright side, there was also no competition because nobody believed it was worth competing. Justin and Co got all the time to figure our their product market fit, even with all the mistakes they'd made along the way.

Atrium, on the other hand, is a business that requires a structured and a measured approach. Now that Justin knows how to raise capital and to put together a team ...etc, he's got an upper hand when compared to Justin at 22, winging it along the way. Consumer startups are like a lottery ticket, which is why most mature entrepreneurs prefer to play the b2b game.

Sahil Lavingia took Gumroad and moved it to Provo, Utah. While in San Francisco everyone cared about his growth rates, employee count, investor names and other typical startup business, in Provo no one cared.

It turns out that every homogenous society operates on its own set of principles and outsiders are judged on a set of values common to that community. In Provo that meant Church and family life.

He told him that the money will come if Michael was passionate about what he was doing.

Severson took the approach to get jobs in the things he was curious about. For example, he wanted to startup a pool cleaning business, but didn’t know how to clean pools. So, he got a job at a pool store to learn all that he could. He did this for a few other concepts, but the main point is to not let your lack of knowledge stop you from being comfortable enough to pursue an idea.

Doing so produces grit which gives them the drive and persistence to pursue their dreams and goals in the long-term.

It focuses more on the non-traditional path to success for college students. There are interviews with social media influencers, startup CEOs who have raised millions of dollars, professional video game writers, etc.

What helped Kathryn in her mid-twenties is a quote from the founder of Chobani. He says, “You don’t need to swim. You just jump in and learn the swimming from there.”

When she started putting up inspiration, it lead to designing, finding out contacts, then getting into stores. Ultimately, she says that you don’t wait, you just start. There is not perfect time to start, you just do.

According to Jason Calacanis, Capitalism and entrepreneurship is the best system to run humanity, but people are starting to hate it right now.

The solution to that is for people who have benefited the most from this system to start behaving better to people who have the least. Stop grinding people on the margins and be generous where it matters.

Your sleep can get easily distorted by using screens before bed. In fact, one hour of iPad reading at night can delay your melatonin production by as much as three hours, causing less REM sleep.

Freight forwarding is the #1 on the list of businesses that can be automated with technology. It's a constant relay race of unstructured data, where every bit of the process needs to be unlocked, from relying on a human, and replaced with software that enables humans to do their work better and faster.