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by rajens 12y ago
Great lecture series. Favourite part of this lecture was hearing about all of the distractions that founders will face throughout the life of their startup (especially if they're successful). Getting a heads up on what to expect is the
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by rajens 12y ago
I think it would've helped to separate the sales/marketing form the how to talk to investors portion, as this lecture seemed to pack a lot of material into a short period. Having said that, I think the sales and marketing part was
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by rajens 12y ago
As someone who's never personally raised any VC, but has been in the startup space for a while...I thought they did a really good job on making things easily to understand as an introduction to VC. I also liked their insights into the
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by rajens 12y ago
This lecture was a bit different from most of the course lectures and not because it was hardware focussed. I felt like it was a lot more 'high level' with less tactical startup takeaways as compared to other lectures. His slides
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by rajens 12y ago
The #1 piece of advice that I took away from this was: "“Who you talk to is just as important as what questions you ask and what you pull away from it." Nowadays with things like Lean Startup Machine and Startup Weekend (which I d
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by rajens 12y ago
I actually liked the fact that this lecture had just 1 lesson to teach, where Ben Horowitz used the entire time to reinforce the one point. I particularly enjoyed his historical reference to Touissaint L’Ouverture. Best quote and lesson I p
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by rajens 12y ago
The two big takeaways for me were: 1) The editor analogy for founders and 2) The Ammunition and Barrels metaphor. Looking at yourself as an editor that has to apply 'red ink' to your startup (especially as it grows) makes sense to
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by rajens 12y ago
For anyone that's looking for a handful of real takeaways- I've put together the 26 quotes that I found interesting from this lecture here: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/26-quotes-reid-hof... I&#x
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by rajens 12y ago
I would've hoped for less about Box's story and more focus about building an enterprise software company, but he did touch on some areas towards the latter half of the lecture. I summarized about 32 quotes (primarily for the latte
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by rajens 12y ago
I also summarize key quotes from each lecture in a post. You can find 38 quotes I picked up from today's lecture here: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/38-quotes-from-ben...
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by rajens 12y ago
I felt that everything about Brian's stories comes back to doing things that don't scale. - Interviewing the first 300 employees - Taking 3-4 months to make his first hire - Stories of talking to/meeting/living with use
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by rajens 12y ago
17 Quotes from Marc Andreessen & Ron Conway each from the lecture: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/17-quotes-from-mar...
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by rajens 12y ago
it took me a little longer to post Justin's quotes, but here they are for anyone who's interested- 20 Quotes from Justin Kan on Getting Press for your Startup: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/20-qu
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by rajens 12y ago
29 Quotes from Walker Williams on Doing Things that Don't Scale: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/29-quotes-from-wal...