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

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

Starting a business is like riding a wave between life and death. If you can hang on long enough, you're bound to succeed

If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.

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

Founders need to figure out what the message of the company is going to be.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.