Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of 'What happens when things go wrong?'

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

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

Generally the reason they fail in the job is, you made some mistake in the hiring process in that you didn't match... them to the needs of your company accurately enough. That's the #1 reason this fails. And that's generally a good place to start: Here's where we are and here's what I didn't recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.