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

Don't let the company get distracted or excited about other things. A common mistake is that companies get excited by their own PR.

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

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

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

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.