I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off. Talk about positive reinforcement!

I can't tell you how many board meetings I've been in where the CEO is anguished over the impacts on morale that cost cutting or layoffs will bring about. You know what hurts morale even more than cost-cutting and layoffs? Going out of business.

You know what kind of companies generally survive? Companies that make more money than they spend. I know, duh, right?

I think women let themselves be burdened by failures much more than men do. They agonize - and I do it a lot, too - and rethink them.

I know a few CEOs who delegate the understanding of their financials and their business metrics to the CFO, and then stop worrying about all that 'numbers stuff.' Don't do that. You have to know your numbers inside and out - they are your life blood.

The individual dynamics going on within a venture fund are critically important to you. Unfortunately, they're also very opaque.