{"id":460,"date":"2008-04-22T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/04\/22\/startup-school-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T00:38:26","slug":"startup-school-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2008\/04\/22\/startup-school-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup School 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Startup School 2008<\/a> is a one day conference geared towards entrepreneurs put together by the folks behind YCombinator. This year the speakers included David Heinemeier Hansson creator of Ruby on Rails, Mike Arrington founder of TechCrunch, Paul Graham founder of YCombinator, Peter Norvig Director of Research of Google, Paul Buchheit of GMail\/FriendFeed, Greg McAdoo of Sequoia Capital, Marc Andreessen of Netscape\/Ning, Jeff Bezos founder Amazon, Sam Altman founder of Loopt, and Jack Sheridan from Wilson Sonsini.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the advice given to the entrepreneurs and starter-uppers present.<\/p>\n

\nWhen going in the wrong direction, it doesn’t matter how fast you are going.
\nPeter Norvig\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nData is more agile than code.
\nPeter Norvig\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSemantic Web<\/b>; the future of the web, and it will always will be.
\nPeter Norvig\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThe odds are not created equal.
\nDavid Heinemeier Hansson\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nOften the simplest idea in the world, like treating your customers nicely, while still asking for money for what you do, can work. And you can build great businesses like that.
\nDavid Heinemeier Hansson\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nMake something people want.
\nPaul Graham\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf you are really committed, and your startup is cheap to run, you become very hard to kill.
\nPaul Graham\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBe soo good that they can’t ignore you.
\nMarc Andreessen\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nAlways have a blog, always have twitter, always be part of the discussion.
\nMike Arrington\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nEmbrace criticism. … Don’t embrace the trolls.
\nMike Arrington\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWe are more innovative, and do more interesting things if we stay customer focused instead of competitor focus.
\nJeff Bezos\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nInvites are good to keep users away.
\nPaul Buchheit\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nI think, unfortunately, in startup and probably in all other worlds there is like this cargo cult tendency where they see something successful and they immediate the superficial attributes of it, like they say ‘oh that site has like a rounded logo, that must be the key to success.’
\nPaul Buchheit\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nMore people, if they are really good people, I found I never really had problem figuring out what to do with. More really great people, if they are great they can take care of themselves.
\nPaul Buchheit\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nFunding does not make you successful.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nCreate some Sand Hill Buzz<\/b> around your deal. Make investors feel like if they don’t act fast, they’re going to miss the next Google.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf you can get your company and your space talked about at drinks on Friday afternoon at Four Seasons in Palo Alto, that is a net win.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n1 – Market. 2 – Team. 3 – Product. 3.5 – Revolutionary, not incremental.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nSurf someones else’s wave.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nRaise 2x what you think you need.
\nSam Altman\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nA great surfer can’t exist without a great wave.
\nGreg McAdoo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf you want to build a truly great company, you have to ride a really big wave and you got to look at market waves and technology waves in different ways than other folks and see it happing sooner and know how to position yourself out there.
\nGreg McAdoo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nDon’t get it perfect, get it good enough, get it out there, listen very carefully, and make changes very quickly.
\nGreg McAdoo\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Video of the Startup School 2008<\/a> is available on Omnisio, a YCombinator company.<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: ycombinator<\/a>, startup<\/a>, entrepreneur<\/a>, conference<\/a>, google<\/a>, friendfeed<\/a>, rails<\/a>, vc<\/a>, dhh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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