The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.