Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

Experience matters for some roles and not others.