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

The job of an editor is to ensure a consistent voice.

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.

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

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Force yourself to simplify every initiative, every product, every marketing, everything you do.

Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.