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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…
Startup School was a blast. Connecting with like minded people, getting some sanity check and verification from YC alumni was awesome. We're Gruply - Instagram for Learning ( https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/452 )
Why would your opening line include Instagram? We are X for Y is always red flag number one.
I am curious about this. Half the vc's recommend you to strongly use this language while the rest half consider it a red flag. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ;)
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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.
If they have a laptop with a microphone, they still have the ability to make a much, much more impressive presentation than nearly any of the ones I watched. 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?
Best of luck for all the founders!
BTW, I'm one of the founders of Hubtype (https://hubtype.com), a messaging and chatbots solution for businesses. Our pitch here: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/344
We are building web service called Adapty.
Adapty is AI-powered digital ads manager that helps you with automation routine tasks. Adapty works with Facebook Ads and myTarget platforms.
Here is our presentation https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/378 and slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16R9qBkyUm2HIMngL19Ug...
If you are interested in our product, please feel free to contact us via email info@adapty.io or directly via Facebook facebook.com/iwitaly
We are from India, building Clorik for Indian market - 90% of the population prefers to converse in their native language. Clorik is a crowd-sourced discovery platform for content in Indian languages. Startup school helped us in being pitch ready, YCombinator style. Here is our presentation link - https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/354
I like the sense that I can get a broad overview of what is out there and what the market looks like by seeing such a large sample of successful companies. How do you guys pick the categories? I ask because some categories are largbe (B2B) and there seems to be a lot of overlap. (i.e. what if there is a B2B company that is also a developer tool?) There are also some categories that I cannot find. There isn't, for ins…
For the first version of Startup School, we stuck with pretty broad categories, just to keep it simple. However, we do plan to make these categories more granular in the future.
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Why would your opening line include Instagram? We are X for Y is always red flag number one.
>We are X for Y is always red flag number one. I am curious about this. Half the vc's recommend you to strongly use this language while the rest half consider it a red flag. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ;)
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!
All the best.