AirBnB spent 5 months interviewing their first employee, before they hired someone and in their first year, they only hired 2 people.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.

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

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.