Don't try to be a large company. Large companies suck. They obsess over processes and demand formality. The best thing about working at a startup is that it's

Don't try to be a large company. Large companies suck. They obsess over processes and demand formality. The best thing about working at a startup is that it's a startup! At a startup, you can be informal. You can do work that wasn't assigned to you. You can communicate with everyone on the team directly. You can change your planned design and get right to working on those changes. People think that companies are big because of the convoluted processes they use. It's the other way around. If you have 100 people to do 95 things, then it makes sense to give every person a specific structured role. Else, why have 100 people at all? When you only have 30 people to do those 95 things, then your structure not only has to be, but can be much more organic and fluid.