You also want to fire people who a) create office politics, and b) who are persistently negative.

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

Growth solves (nearly) all problems