Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup.
Category: Learnings
Lecture 3 – Before the Startup (Paul Graham)
Paul Graham delivers an informative (and highly amusing) talk on Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideas.
Class link is here.
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.
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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
Eleven Compelling Startup Pitch Archetypes (with examples from YC companies) – The Art of Ass-Kicking
Photo credit by TEDx Vancouver Over the past few weeks, I’ve helped a handful of startups work on their YC applications and interviews. I spent much of the time brainstorming with the founders on the best way to explain their business in the most clear and compelling way possible. These founders knew a lot about…
Good stuff.
How do I balance user satisfaction versus virality?
Originally asked on Quora. If you find yourself mostly thinking about balancing satisfaction versus virality, you’re probably doing it wrong. The Quora question
I found this article to be of great help when deciding which feature/narrative to develop for the next milestone. It’s good to think about which bucket your feature falls into regarding retention/product-market fit and/or user growth. Take a look at the value prop-viral matrix in the article.
Nate Blecharczyk, CTO of Airbnb (Startup School 2013)
Great video for entrepreneurs. Nate Blecharczyk of airbnb at Startup School 2013.
Positive Tenacity 