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

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

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

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.