Top 10 Must Have For a Start-up

So we’re going to talk about - so the topic of today's thing is from day one, I mean the top 10 things you need that you must have to start a business and I'm going to try to debunk some of the school and Silicon Valley and VC a little bit as we go. So #10, the first thing you need is comfortable cheap furniture. Don't get carried away, you don't need new steel case, it doesn't help. It doesn't do anything for you. You need a couch. You're going to spend a lot of time there, you're probably doing some sleeping. Used everything. It's just fine because you're going to want customers to pay higher prices and they would otherwise pay. When they visit, you'll think they need the money. Literally, we had people feel that way early on. Spend everything you can on great people on great equipment. That's everything and your customers know it, too. We even had a couple of mice, this was the picture and we had a lockered cat to chase the mice around. The point is it doesn't matter how you look, what matter is what you do and so focus on that. Number nine, put up a sign. If you're in business, tell the world the first company even though I had money and we had all these things, I never got a sign up. With Finisar, I rented a building and put up a sign within the first week or two and that's important. We chose an abstract name, for those of you who didn't go to Website which I think it's just fine, Finisar was named because I worked at a whole bunch of big companies and never finished anything, and so I named it after the word finished so that we'd finish some stuff. But it means nothing bad in any language in the known world. So we haven't insulted anybody and we didn't name it, you know, really fast gigabit fiber optics because when terabit fiber optics comes a name, it would be out to date. So that's important too. You need to leave yourself some room for bright ideas to come up inside. Tell your customers to look for a sign and then the main point of putting this is just...