Rapid decision-making is essential. When you’re moving fast, you may make mistakes. But the biggest mistake is not making decisions fast enough, because the only thing that matters is time.

You can never raise enough money. Things are always more expensive and take longer than you ...

• Sometimes when an investor tells a startup founder “no,” it’s a positive sign for the business. When an idea is truly big and transformative, it can draw a polarized reaction or a “squirmy no.”
• The best businesses can emerge from moments of desperation.

How do you get the idea for a business and then lead it to success?

The best business ideas initially seem the least plausible, that doing things that don’t scale can be a good starting point, and that what customers actually want can be different from what they tel...

• Kathryn Minshew, the founder of The Muse job site, says investors told her ‘no’ 148 times before the first one agreed to invest.
• Huffington’s wellness startup Thrive has a rule that nobody should interview a job candidate while they’re tired!
• Chinese parents’ dissatisfaction ...