Everything I Need to Know About Startups, I Learned From a Crime Boss

Donald DeSantis published Everything I Need to Know About Startups, I Learned From a Crime Boss on GigaOM, in which he talks about lessons learned via organized crime. Those lessons are:

• Don’t sell rocks when you can sell mountains
• Cut out the middleman
• Don’t shit where you eat
• If it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense
• Closed mouths don’t get fed
• Be a badass