“不能沉溺在宏大的愿景中，否则会使泡沫膨胀。自称可以成大事的人都不可信，因为心存改变世界之雄心的人通常要更加谦逊。小幅地循序渐进地成长是安全前进的唯一道路。”

Grand visions inflated the bubble, so they should not be indulged. Anyone who claims to be able to do something great is suspect, and anyone who wants to change the world should be more humble. Small, incremental steps are the only safe path forward

所有的公司都必须留出一定空间，不要事事都严格计划。你不知道你的事业会变成什么样，事先规划通常既死板又不现实。相反，你应该做些尝试，反复实践，把创业当成未知的实验。

All companies must be “lean,” which is code for “unplanned.” You should not know what your business will do; planning is arrogant and inflexible. Instead you should try things out, “iterate,” and treat entrepreneurship as agnostic experimentation.

不要贸然创造一个新市场。以现成的客户作为出发点创业才更有保障。成功者已经创造出被认可的产品，在此基础上加以改进，才是可取之道。

Don’t try to create a new market prematurely. The only way to know you have a real business is to start with an already existing customer, so you should build your company by improving on recognizable products already offered by successful competitors.

如果你的产品需要广告或营销人员去推销，就说明你的产品还不够好：科技应用于商业应该主打产品开发，而不是分销。在泡沫年代打广告显然都是浪费，唯一持久的成长是爆发式成长。

If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution. Bubble-era advertising was obviously wasteful, so the only sustainable growth is viral growth.