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

Obsess about the quality of the product.

These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.

If you compromise in the first five, ten hires it might kill the company.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.