1) Great hiring is partly function of how many people you put into the top of the funnel. You won't put extra pressure on yourself to hire anyone you don't feel great about, because you know you'll see more, and it will help you get a good sense of what you're looking for.
2) Take feature suggestions out of the hands of executives. Instead, make problem/opportunity identification their job and let the process figure out the solutions through testing and data.
3) Slankets are awesome. Path 101 got Gary Clegg at The Slanket to hook up every single SocialFoo attendee with a Slanket. We thought it would be appropriate because it gets cold at night in Sebastopol, plus, as you can see, Slankets are an important part of the social graph:
4) At the end of the day, the most successful people are those that are dedicated to building really great stuff, not the people who worry too much about beating the competition--collaboration FTW!
5) Building a few deep connections with people is better than trying to network at scale. This is the same reason I love SXSW. When you can hangout with people in your industry in a relaxed social setting, you get to know them a lot better. They become people versus just business cards or Twitter icons. I greatly enjoyed getting to know the folks I met at SocialFoo and look forward to hopefully running into them again soon.