I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
1 of the hardest parts about being a founder, is that there are a 100 important things competing for your attention each day.
No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.
I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.
What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.
Obsess about the quality of the product.
If someone is difficult to talk to, if someone cannot communicate clearly, it's a real problem in terms of their likelihood to work out.
Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.
Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower" animals with simple nervous systems arise as genetic products of natural selection, then human behavior should have a similar basis.
I like to make people look as good as they'd like to look, and with luck, a shade better.