Transparency people talk a lot about, it's a goal everybody ascribes to but when push comes to shove, very few people actually adhere to it.

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

Every good startup is a cult. And it's really hard to create a cult if you are sharing space with people. Because a cult means you think you are better than every other startup, you have a special way of doing things that's better than anyone else in the world.

You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.