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

Every company has a rocky beginning.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.