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

Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product.

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

One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

... the thing we see wrong with YC apps most frequently, is that people have not thought about the market first and what people want first.

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.