You can't be focussed without really great communication

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

Most things are not as risky as they seem.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

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

More important than starting any startup, is getting to know a lot of potential co-founders.