Any time we see progress and innovation, we're going to see a road littered with tries that maybe didn't work out so well. So failure has to be an option. Embrace that and move forward boldly anyway. Be fearless.

A lot of our conviction and our practices around entrepreneurship come from the city. You see it in the people walking the streets and working at these businesses. It's just collecting that energy together and doing something with it.

It's a global economy. Let's embrace investment from other parts of the world, whether it be China or someplace else.

When I think about the maker movement, it is about man taking over the machines again and being empowered. In Etsy's case, being able to reach a global marketplace with your goods.

We cannot let the city’s fiscal challenges obscure the fact that it has tremendous assets and that there are plenty of opportunities for worthwhile investment.