Re:Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014
by ludicast on Thursday June 19, 2014 @03:08PM
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Great time. Really enjoyed a few things:
- Zach Sims quoting his classmates' saying something like "you should be embarrassed by your first version, but you shouldn't be THIS embarrassed."
- The Instacart story was very inspiring. I've heard it before (the pictures, the late app, etc.), but always a lot of fun. The part about him refusing to food shop until he could do it from his own app is exactly the sort of dogfooding I do and recommend.
- The repeated invocations to build for yourself.
I especially appreciated Shana Fisher's contrarian advice:
- don't be afraid to perfect & build a minimum "desirable" product
- get each hire right before moving on to the next
- sometimes it is best to be a single founder if you have a certain personality
Re:Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014
by sreyaNotfilc on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:34PM
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I'm glad I went!
My take-away...
A lot of the things they've mentioned was stuff I already heard/known. That said, it was great to hear them again and again.
I really like the cadence of
1) "No excuses. Just Do It!"
2) "No one knows what they're doing and that's fine"
3) "The Net is truly a level playing field"
Anyway, those are my little tidbits. Back to coding!
- Zach Sims quoting his classmates' saying something like "you should be embarrassed by your first version, but you shouldn't be THIS embarrassed."
- The Instacart story was very inspiring. I've heard it before (the pictures, the late app, etc.), but always a lot of fun. The part about him refusing to food shop until he could do it from his own app is exactly the sort of dogfooding I do and recommend.
- The repeated invocations to build for yourself.
I especially appreciated Shana Fisher's contrarian advice:
- don't be afraid to perfect & build a minimum "desirable" product
- get each hire right before moving on to the next
- sometimes it is best to be a single founder if you have a certain personality
My take-away... A lot of the things they've mentioned was stuff I already heard/known. That said, it was great to hear them again and again.
I really like the cadence of 1) "No excuses. Just Do It!" 2) "No one knows what they're doing and that's fine" 3) "The Net is truly a level playing field"
Anyway, those are my little tidbits. Back to coding!
http://www.brevedy.com/2014/06/19/key-takeaways-from-yc-star...