Startup School 2010 was organized by YCombinator The speakers included Ron Conway, Brian Chesky, Paul Graham Andrew Mason, Tom Preston-Werner and Mark Zuckerberg. These lessons were shares by speakers at this year’s startup school.
- Team is more important and the best asset for the startup
- Execution and product is the next step to a big company
- Innovation is the never ending search for better solutions
- Music startups are basically unacquirable due to the specifics of their deals with the labels.
- If You Can’t Sell the Shirt, Don’t Give It Away.
- Competition between super angels and VCs is good for startups.
- Take one feature/use case and make a new business out of it when you fail.
- You always have a choice, do the stuff at your own pace, if you can
- Join Somebody Else’s Startup
- You’re not building a piece of art; it’s a tool,
- You need to solve your own problems.
- Before you can go to the market, you need to get into distribution and engagement of the users.
- Really, anybody can do it. Everybody started small and mostly as a 2 or 3 person team.
- Recognize and embrace your constraints
- Bootstrapping is a way to do something about the problems you have without letting someone else give you permission to do them.
- Do things that allow you to win and that allow someone else to win. It is not a zero-sum game.
- Do things that won’t scale; it will teach you
- You don’t need a business plan. You don’t need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea.
- If you just work on stuff that you like and you’re passionate about, you don’t have to have a master plan with how things will play out
- The best tools aren’t always that cool
- Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible
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