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

Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.

Long term thinking is so rare anywhere, but especially in startups. This is a huge advantage if you do it.

If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.