Insights on startups, (David Lawee, Google)
David Lawee, VP of Corporate Development at Google, shares his insight on setting up a company.
Key Takeaways & Notes
Top 3 Lessons
Be Passionate
Partnerships are amazing but hard
Speed is everything
Things to think about for partnerships
Do you want flip? Grow? IPO?
Fianancing, How much and from where? (Angels, VC, Equity, Friends)
People
Culture
The ability to move quickly is your best competitive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
