Lecture 9: How to Raise Money Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) Ron Conway (@RonConway) Parker Conrad (@parkerconrad) You’ve got to be a communicator and a born leader. (Rob Conway) The venture capital business is 100% a game of outliers. (Marc Andreessen) There… Continue reading How to Raise Money
Month: October 2014
Doing Things That Don’t Scale
Lecture 8: Doing Things That Don’t Scale Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Stanley Tang (@stanleytang) It is okay to hack things together at the beginning. Do things that don’t scale. Doing things that don’t scale allows you to become an expert in your own business.… Continue reading Doing Things That Don’t Scale
How to Build Products Users Love, Part I
Lecture 7: How to Build Products Users Love, Part I Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Kevin Hale (@ilikevests) Growth is the gap between conversion and churn. The best way to get to a billion dollars is to focus on the value that gets you to… Continue reading How to Build Products Users Love, Part I
Growth
Lecture 6: Growth Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Alex Schultz (@alexschultz) Growth hacking is just Internet marketing. Great product leads to customers. Retention is the single most important thing for growth. If you don’t have a great product there is no use spending time growing… Continue reading Growth
Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory
Lecture 5: Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Peter Thiel (@peterthiel) If you’re starting a company you always want to aim for a monopoly. You always want to avoid competition. A business creates X dollars of value and captures Y% of… Continue reading Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory
Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Lecture 4: Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Adora Cheung (@nolimits) Take advice as good guidance but every business is different. When you start a startup you should have a lot of time to immerse yourself in the problem… Continue reading Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing
Before the Startup
Lecture 3: Before the Startup Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Paul Graham (@paulg) Startups are very counterintuitive. You can’t trust your intuition all of the time. You don’t need people to give you advice that doesn’t surprise you. Work with people you genuinely like… Continue reading Before the Startup
Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II
Lecture 2: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Sam Altman (@sama) As a student trust your instincts to identify if a market is going to be big. One of the hard parts about running a startup is that it… Continue reading Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II
Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I
Lecture 1: Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I Link: How to Start a Startup (You can find notes to the other lectures here.) Sam Altman (@sama) 30% (of startup knowledge) is pretty generally applicable. You need a great idea, a great product, a great team, and great execution. If you do… Continue reading Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I