A solid process lays the foundation for a healthy culture, one where ideas are evaluated by merit and not by job title.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.

Because startups often accidentally build something nobody wants, it doesn’t matter much if they do it on time and on budget. The goal of a startup is to figure out the right thing to build - the thing customers want and will pay for - as quickly as possible.

Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that nobody wanted.

If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown.