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

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

The more you simplify, the better people will perform. People can not understand and keep track of a long complicated set of initiatives. So you have to distill it down to one, two, or three things and use a framework they can repeat, they can repeat without thinking about, they can repeat to their friends, they can repeat at night.

If people start going to a desk, some one individual employees desk and they don't report to them... it's a sign that they believe that person can help them. So if you see that consistently, those are your barrels. Just promote them, give them more opportunity as fast as you can.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.