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

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.