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Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by antaviana on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:21PM (#25532026)
Back in 2014 I found his lectures, and many of the other videos in the course very useful. Coincidentally, at the time of the course I was launching a software product and by applying some of the concepts learnt in the course it became something that is now bringing some $600K yearly in mostly passive income. So you do not need to go all the way in start up mode to get value from it. Reharshing the obvious is still great advice. We all have lots of blind spots.
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by simoncarter on Thursday December 24, 2020 @05:52PM (#25532280)
What were some of those concepts that ended up being usefu?
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by antaviana on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:28PM (#25532566)
Possibly those that turned out to be most useful were the importance (and resilience) of integrations (Box guy), the quest to try to create monopolistic situations (Palantir guy), importance of a North star KPI (Facebook guy). But the course has lots of other concepts (understand your customers by doing things that don't scale, focus on what customers want, not on what competitors do, etc).
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by joshxyz on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:23PM (#25533342)
Thiel is an outlier for me imo, that guy is gangsta
Re:How to Start a Startup (2014) by ackbar03 on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:45PM (#25532728)
Would you be willing to share roughly what space your product is in?