You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

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

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

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

Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.