I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

The construct of a dashboard, first of all should be drafted by the founder.

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The office environment that people work in everyday dictates the culture that you are going to be in.

It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.