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…the outcome of a start-up depends as much on the achievements of its competitors and on changes in the market as on its own efforts.

…the most valuable leaders are those who can combine the scrappiness of a startup leader with the organizational and diplomatic discipline needed in a big company.

Secrets, lies, opacity – they tear families apart just as surely as they do startups.

…man startups suffer… because founders don’t understand themselves and how their companies inherit their traits.

In the startup world, even if you raise money, becoming an overnight success doesn’t happen overnight.

…startup culture is about one thing: growth. As fast as you can. At all costs.

One of the great things startups can do is massively accelerate your career path.

…don’t go in blinded by the money. Most of the time, startups are a comparatively poorly rewarded labor of passion.

…real transparency is talking about the uncomfortable parts of entrepreneurship and startups.

…so few people are willing to be transparent about real numbers or honest that a big part of the motivation for founding a startup is in the hopes of an extraordinary payday.