You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

... but actually it sucks to have a lot of employees, and you should be proud of how few employees you have.

It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

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.

You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

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

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.