Month: September 2014

Lecture 2 – Team and Execution (Sam Altman)

How to Start a Startup course’s 2nd lecture video is up!

Sam Altman finishes up “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution” by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup.

Get your slide deck here.

Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)

Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz start off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam’s topic is “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution, Part I” and Dustin’s is “Why to Start a Startup”.

Annotated script: http://tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-how-to-start-a-startup-lecture-1-annotated

Four Dimensions of Startup that CEO Needs to Check Regularly

Sequoia Capital has a good post on a simple, but comprehensive list of things they look for in a business plan. Meanwhile, as a handy toolkit, I regularly revisit a simple four-dimension checklist of a startup.

2PM – People, Product, Market, Money.

The priority among the dimensions shifts depending the stage of your business. Think of it as a juggling, instead of a one-way flow. You don’t want to dwell on a single dimension for too long, and other balls might fall out of your hands.

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