Tips & Advice
Startup School 08, Greg McAdoo, Sequoia Capital
Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital and how to create a great company.
Key Takeaways & Notes
Elements of a sustainable company
Clarity of purpose
Spectacular market
Alleviate customer pain
Team DNA
Incredible Product focus
Real operating margins
Frugality
Inferno with a single match
Common Mistakes
Cluttered Markets
Too much money
Too early or too late
Not addressing a true pain
A feature and not a [...]
The art of bootstrapping (Guy Kawasaki)
Guy Kawasaki author of The art of the start, has a must read post on his blog, called the art of bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is what you do when you are starting your business, You fund the project yourself by a variety of means to avoid external investors until absolutely required. Here’s a summary of [...]
Startup School 08, Creating a successful startup (Paul Graham)
Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, speaks at Startup School 08 about how to create a successful startup.
Key Takeaways and Notes
Make something people want and do not worry too much about the money
There are parallels between a non profit and a startup, especially at the beginning stages (i.e craiglist)
Benevolent startups often turn into great companies
Benevolence increases [...]
Startup School 08, Start a business (David Heinemeier Hansson)
In a talk called the secret to making money online David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.
YCombinator Startup School 2008
Startup school, a yearly conference sponsored by Y combinator and Bases (Standford) aims to share knowledge and train young entrepreneurs by hosting talks by experienced people. Y combinator also offers entrepreneurs early stage seed funding. The most famous of these projects that have spun out of Ycombinator are scribd & reddit.
This year the [...]
