So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.

If you want something in a deal, just ask for it.

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

If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

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

The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.