By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

... and you can only have 2 or 3 things everyday, because everything else will just come at you; you know fires in a day.

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

You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.

You also really want to take the time to think about how the market is going to evolve.You need a market that's going to be big in 10 years.

The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster