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During Startup School we built TechLeaks.org, a Glassdoor for Software Engineers ( https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/511 ). We went from idea to growth in just 10 weeks and I seriously doubt this could have been possible without the accountability required at the weekly office hours. Thank you Ian (our mentor) and to the rest of mates in our group-45 cohort. The best is yet to come. Good luck everybody!
i just watched 3 random presentations, and i was surprised how low quality these videos are. I mean, they might have an amazing product, but the delivery could be a show stopper. What do you guys think?
For many of the teams, english is a second or third language, and they came from areas where startups/tech are in it's infancy, so access to decent hardware is tough. With that said, we only spent a week working on videos and it's more our fault than theirs that we chose to focus on building product rather than pitching, as many companies were very early.
Why spend hundreds of hours building your product if you spent 10 minutes writing a script you're going to read out to your webcam in a dimly lit room?
Based on the comments in this thread, it seems like there was some sort of instruction for all the students to come here and post about their experience, which has resulted in a complete non-discussion.
As a solo founder, I found startup school invaluable. It really helped keep me honest with myself to discuss what I had done and what I will do at the weekly office hours. I would recommend Startup School to any startup but if you're a solo founder then I think you will find the weekly office hours especially valuable. Here's my presentation: Pingy is a desktop app to create, share and deploy websites: https://www.st…
I recommend the program to anyone thinking about starting a startup. The highlight was having live mentorship from very successful startup founders. My mentor had raised tens of millions in VC funding for his startup. He spent 2 hours with us every week. My presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/242
What happens if a lawyer choose to only defend a lot of easy to win cases to bump up their track record close to 100%. How do you identify how hard a case was in the first place, and find the lawyers who do go after hard cases successfully.
Greg here, founder of MarineVerse - virtual reality sailing.
If you're interested in sailing, you might like what we're doing.
https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/238
Happy to answer any questions!
Best regards, Greg
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There were no instructions to come here and post about our experience, but most of us are huge HN fans so that naturally happens. And hey, since you're here already, check out my presentation on Toby: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/649 hahaha. Cheers!
Nice job on the video -- your pitch was very clear and I could understand right away what your company was about.
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There were no instructions to come here and post about our experience, but most of us are huge HN fans so that naturally happens. And hey, since you're here already, check out my presentation on Toby: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/649 hahaha. Cheers!
Top notch animation in your on-site video
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There were no instructions to come here and post about our experience, but most of us are huge HN fans so that naturally happens. And hey, since you're here already, check out my presentation on Toby: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/649 hahaha. Cheers!
Awesome idea! I've always wanted something like this.
During Startup School we built TechLeaks.org, a Glassdoor for Software Engineers ( https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/511 ). We went from idea to growth in just 10 weeks and I seriously doubt this could have been possible without the accountability required at the weekly office hours. Thank you Ian (our mentor) and to the rest of mates in our group-45 cohort. The best is yet to come. Good luck everybody!
Isn't Glassdoor, Glassdoor for Software Engineers? Why even make the comparison?
The difference between Glassdoor and TechLeaks is that Glassdoor reviews are broad and targeted to all kind of audiences. There's a lot of noise from sales, marketing and other departents making reviews and there's no specific info relevant to software engineering.
Techleaks is different than glassdoor because it just targets software engineers. The reviews hosted in TechLeaks are related to questions software engineers always ask in their job interviews. For example:
What is the Agile maturity in the project? Can you choose the computer flavour? Do you get free tickets for dev conferences? What's the level of CD/CI ?