You need conviction in your own beliefs, and the willingness to ignore others naysaying.

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

... how much time you should be spending on hiring? The answer is 0 or 25 percent.

You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

Every first time founder waits too long, everyone hopes that an employee will turn around. But the right answer is to fire fast.