Book Titles

It’s not enough that candidates are qualified to work for your startup; they must also believe in the product, because working for a startup is closer to a religion than a way to make a living.

Failure… is often a better teacher than success – especially when it’s a failure on some other company’s dime.

Sometimes it pays to ignore the lack of a perfect and relevant background, while at other times it pays to ignore the presence of the perfect and relevant background.

Performing well in one area is tough enough; trying to find people who can do everything is Mission: Impossible.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

A realistic description is that startups take four to five years of long hours at low pay with incredible highs and depressing lows with the constant fear of running out of money. And this is if things go well.

Life is too short to work with people you don’t like – especially in a startup.

Every day is a new contract between startups and their employees.

The lesson is this: don’t recruit to make an investor happy. Recruit to build a great startup.

…evangelism is about what you do for your customers – not about what you want to become.