Paul Graham’s Y! Combinator organized “Startup School 2008” a while ago. Dharmesh Shah’s onStartups blog summarizes key take aways from the event. I am taking up even refined points, and recommend you to read the full post on Dharmesh’s blog.
David Lawee, VP Corporate Development, Google; founder, XFire.
Hurry Up.
Sam Altman, Founder, Loopt.
If you can avoid having to raise money, then don’t raise it.
Jack Sheridan, Lawyer, Wilson Sonsini.
Some legal decisions that you may make early on never go away.
Paul Graham; Founder, ViaWeb, YCombinator.
Build something people want
Greg McAdoo, Partner, Sequoia Capital.
The surfer has to pick the wave, but can’t control the wave. Know your market.
David Heinemeier Hansson, creator, Ruby on Rails, partner, 37Signals:
Create a great product, and charge money for it! You don’t need to be acquired to make money.
Paul Buchheit: creator, Gmail, founder, FriendFeed.
Interpret your users’ feedback to determine what the real problem is. Then find a solution to that problem.
Mike Arrington, blogger, TechCrunch.
Stand out; and have a compelling story.
Marc Andreesson, Founder, Netscape, Ning, etc.
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
Peter Norvig, Director of research, Google.
Start small, go fast, iterate rapidly. Leverage data; especially other people’s data.
And you will find full videos of the conference on Omnisio.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing, one fresh
idea and you can change the world, keep
up the great work.