The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

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

Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

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.