When I Run A Company These are things that I would do to create the company environment of my dreams. (DRAFT, in process) Founding a company Make sure there is a business side person Follow the Tornado book Focus on the niche Discussion not consensus to generate decisions, leaders that are cooperative are important Growing the company Managers will focus on mentoring and career growth Hiring will focus more on fit, culture and learning ability Make sure there is an evangalist for fun Structure for internal training, all senior people must mentor/train. If you can't figure out how to partition work, you'll never scale or schedule correctly. Security by attitude not by policy "random" fun Definitely Think Global/Act Local