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
- 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