As a startup employee, the biggest quality of life boost for me is that our company actually has an office manager/general gofer, and treats him well. It's amazingly important to have someone around whose job it is to handle tasks not related to the core business, but which are not easily outsourced.

Obvious? Maybe. But I've worked for, and observed, too many small companies in which either a co-founder founder ends up doing office-manager crap or it gets offloaded onto the first tech employee who's convenient. It should not be the tech staff's job to restock the fridge, replace office supplies, handle invoicing, pay the rent, ...