diff --git a/docs/examples/getting-started.md b/docs/examples/getting-started.md
index d7447428d..3ae42e27f 100644
--- a/docs/examples/getting-started.md
+++ b/docs/examples/getting-started.md
@@ -22,19 +22,22 @@ The script is also used to facilitate cluster deployment below.
 
 ### Manual Install
 
-Requires: 
-- `go` minimum version 1.9.2
-- `$GOPATH` set and `$GOPATH/bin` on your $PATH (see https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Setting-GOPATH)
+Requires:
+- `go` minimum version 1.9
+- `$GOPATH` environment variable must be set
+- `$GOPATH/bin` must be on your `$PATH` (see https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/wiki/Setting-GOPATH)
 
 To install Tendermint, run:
 
 ```
 go get github.com/tendermint/tendermint
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tendermint/tendermint
-make get_vendor_deps
+make get_tools && make get_vendor_deps
 make install
 ```
 
+Note that `go get` may return an error but it can be ignored.
+
 Confirm installation:
 
 ```
@@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ and check that it worked with:
 curl -s 'localhost:46657/abci_query?data="abcd"'
 ```
 
-We can send transactions with a key:value store:
+We can send transactions with a key and value too:
 
 ```
 curl -s 'localhost:46657/broadcast_tx_commit?tx="name=satoshi"'
@@ -114,9 +117,9 @@ where the value is returned in hex.
 
 ## Cluster of Nodes
 
-First create four Ubuntu cloud machines. The following was testing on Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (3GB/1CPU, 20GB SSD). We'll refer to their respective IP addresses below as IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4.
+First create four Ubuntu cloud machines. The following was tested on Digital Ocean Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (3GB/1CPU, 20GB SSD). We'll refer to their respective IP addresses below as IP1, IP2, IP3, IP4.
 
-Then, `ssh` into each machine, and `curl` then execute [this script](https://git.io/vNLfY):
+Then, `ssh` into each machine, and execute [this script](https://git.io/vNLfY):
 
 ```
 curl -L https://git.io/vNLfY | bash
@@ -128,12 +131,12 @@ This will install `go` and other dependencies, get the Tendermint source code, t
 Next, `cd` into `docs/examples`. Each command below should be run from each node, in sequence:
 
 ```
-tendermint node --home ./node1 --proxy_app=dummy
-tendermint node --home ./node2 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656
-tendermint node --home ./node3 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656
-tendermint node --home ./node4 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656,IP3:46656
+tendermint node --home ./node1 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656,IP3:46656,IP4:46656
+tendermint node --home ./node2 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656,IP3:46656,IP4:46656
+tendermint node --home ./node3 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656,IP3:46656,IP4:46656
+tendermint node --home ./node4 --proxy_app=dummy --p2p.seeds IP1:46656,IP2:46656,IP3:46656,IP4:46656
 ```
 
-Note that after the third node is started, blocks will start to stream in because >2/3 of validators (defined in the `genesis.json` have come online). Seeds can also be specified in the `config.toml`. See [this PR](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/792) for more information about configuration options.
+Note that after the third node is started, blocks will start to stream in because >2/3 of validators (defined in the `genesis.json`) have come online. Seeds can also be specified in the `config.toml`. See [this PR](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/792) for more information about configuration options.
 
 Transactions can then be sent as covered in the single, local node example above.