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.

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

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

Every company has a rocky beginning.

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

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.