At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.

Because it's one of these sort of connections between nodes- every pair of people adds communication overhead.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

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