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.

You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

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

One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.

As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.