When a start-up matures to the point where it has a killer product, a clear and sizable market, and a robust distribution channel, it has the opportu… - Reid Hoffman

During the early stages of blitzscaling — Family and Tribe — it’s easier to take risks because you don’t have much to lose.

Regular e-mails to all employees are a common best practice. Blitzscaling masters Patrick Collison and YouTube’s Shishir Mehrotra also employed this technique to manage their rapidly growing organizations. “I was a big believer in writing a weekly email,” Shishir told our Blitzscaling class at Stanford. “Leaders [who] write things down tend to deal with [fewer] communications issues. You have to clarify your thought processes in a completely different way.

As we’ve already seen, most great ideas look dumb at first. Being contrarian doesn’t mean that dumb people disagree with you; it means that smart people disagree with you!