Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard...maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

Once your product is working, switch from not caring about this to caring about this a little bit.

A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.