Startup school: My learnings and favorite quotes

0. Ignore advice for the most part.
Advice = limited life experiences + overgeneralization (Paul Buchheit, gmail, friendfeed)
1. Useful is better than innovative. Useful is better than cool. Innovative things fade away. Useful never does. Think of the postit note. You will be using it 20 years from now, not because it is innovative, but because [...]