helloq’s most recent Quotables

To be successful in a start-up you have to have high intelligence, high integrity and high energy. Intelligence and energy are easier to mesure. Integrity is the most important factor.

Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It’s about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately…. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul.

How many of you have been asked to shoot a viral video? There’s no such thing as a viral video, until it’s become a viral video.

Even the state department now believes that world peace will come from entrepreneurs. So you guys are ambassadors of peace.

To create value, you must experiment.

If everytime you talk with the founders you get more excited. That’s a company I want to work with.

We know SXSW fans expect progressive experiences delivered in an authentic, innovative spirit.

Social media gives you the ability to check perception. You’re not speaking at people anymore, you are speaking with them.

Connections happen through shared objects.

The primary benefit of an application is to change behavior, without telling you to change behavior.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. What happens in Austin gets tweeted immediately.

In a Web of Apps, APIs are the new hyperlinks.

We are wildly public with what we are doing online. But at the end of the day, there is a real world.

Have the trustworthiness of Zappos, the likeability of Richard Branson, and the product of Apple, and you'll be enchanting.

Engage fast, with many, and often.

Never ask an employee to do something you wouldn't do.

We play games together to learn to trust each other in safe environments.

Find a place where you can tinker alone.

If people are going to social media to complain, perhaps the process is broken, and that's what you need to fix.

Don't advertise. Make things that remind them that they are human.