Hugh at Gaping Voidingvoid recaps some "lessons learned" in his first two years of working with Stormhoek winery.  Just a few of his points should resonate with anyone (including lawyers) trying to build an amazing business:

14. We can make this as lucrative and as intellectually stimulating as we want to. The ball is in our court.

16. What's driving innovation and sales on our end is not a technological issue, it's a cultural issue. Get the right culture going, and the tech looks after itself.

17. When I started working in the advertising business as a young buck in London, back in the late 1980s, Bartle Bogle Hegarty were considered the best game in town, even if they were not the biggest agency. Every young advertising student aspired to have a gig there one day, everyone daydreamed of one day having John Hegarty return their calls. The were considered the Praetorian Guard. Within two years from now, I want every smart, driven young person in the wine trade to be thinking the same way about us. That to me would be a far more worthy definition of "success", than how many cases we sell.