No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You really want to know your cofounders for a while, ideally years.

The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in disaster.

A related advantage of mission oriented ideas, is that you yourself will be dedicated to them.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.