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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 s…

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 s…

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 in…

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 ta…

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 L…

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 re…

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 yo…

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-startu…

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 s…

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.…

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 - Storie…

17 Quotes from Marc Andreessen & Ron Conway each from the lecture: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/17-quotes-from-mar...

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/h…

29 Quotes from Walker Williams on Doing Things that Don't Scale: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/29-quotes-from-wal...