The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

In the early days of a startup, people's compensation is whatever you negotiate with a founder and it's all over the place.

Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.