Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

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

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

You don't get to make their decisions but you do get to choose the decision makers.

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

You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.