The best ideas often look terrible at the beginning the truly good ideas, don't seem like they're worth stealing.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

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

Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.