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.

In general, it's best if you're building something that you yourself need.

If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

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.