Study the unusually successful people you know, and you will find them imbued with enthusiasm for their work which is contagious. Not only are they themselves excited about what they are doing, but they also get you excited

You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

One of the great and terrible things about starting a start up is that you get no credit for trying.

For most of the early hires you make in a startup, experience doesn't matter very much, and you should go for aptitude.

The thirteenth search engine- and without all the features of a web portal, most people thought that was pointless.