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

The first thing that editor does is they take out a red pen, or nowadays you go online, and they start striking things. Basically eliminating things, the biggest task of an editor is to simplify, simplify, simplify and that usually means omitting things.

Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Your goal over time is to use less red ink every day.

Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.