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

You certainly don't need to have everything figured out in the path from here to world domination.

Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.