The document provides startup advice on several key topics including work-life balance, company culture, finding mentors, legal structures, accounting practices, documentation, taxes, and pitching. It emphasizes the importance of validating your idea by solving real problems, having a committed founding team, maintaining a sustainable work-life balance, building a supportive culture, seeking strategic advice from mentors, properly incorporating and structuring the company, accurately tracking finances and burn rate, meeting tax and filing obligations, and focusing on meaningful metrics and actions over just talking.

1. The shit that no one talks about @MarcNager

2. A few things first...

4. What comes first, the team or the idea? Your Idea Team Idea

5. Validation Who’s problem are you solving?

6. It’s not all about $$ Funding ≠ Success Only 16 percent of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in the US had venture financing

7. Do you have full Commitment? diff btw. co-founder and an employee “ ...oh yeah, i have a developer working for me.”

8. Have all of these? Team Validation Commitment Let’s go....

9. Welcome to the Real World

12. Culture

20. Accounting 1. Know your REAL burn rate 2. An annual budget 3. Accounting System 4. Know your runway Do-s

22. QuickBooks up and running

23. Documentation

26. At the end of the day... Pivot Stealth