We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Stay focused and don't try to do too many things at once. Care about execution quality.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.

It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.