You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

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

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