You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

... you want to be proud of how much you can get done with a small numbers of employees.

The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

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.

Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

I myself used to believe ideas didn't matter that much, but I'm very sure that's wrong now.