Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

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

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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

What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.