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

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

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.