Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.