Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
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Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
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Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#2A byline would be helpful, here...
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#3Worth the read just for this:
The pizza place was very confused by this, but they send the pizza guy without a pizza, Kyle answers the door, and the pizza guy says, "The site is down."
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#4Having started riding this roller coaster I particularly enjoyed a view of what pitfalls to be aware of in the future.
Also, since I just survived a dual-founder breakup (company intact), it was encouraging to know that this was probably a bigger bullet to have dodged. (For those curious, post-breakup I reached out to an old friend with whom I've shared some tenuous situations and we have applied to YC for the next batch)
Edit: I forgot about the pizza comment! When she asked how to contact someone in Lake Tahoe, I audibly said pizza (in my empty apartment). When the solution was pizza, I had a celebratory moment.
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#5The link assumes that you know who is speaking. But it doesn't give that critical piece of information.
Founders at Work was written by Jessica Livingston, who is a cofounder of ycombinator. She's married to Paul Graham. But do not think that she's in there just because of the personal connection. Her book is truly excellent. And in previous articles I've seen Paul say that the #1 thing that they want in a founder is determination, and the person that they rely on to spot it during the interview is Jessica.
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#6Here's a link to the video version of Jessica Livingston's talk from Startup School: http://startupschool.org/2012/livingston/
It really is great! I encourage everyone on HN to read or watch it if they have not already. As a not-yet founder, it has a lot of interesting advice that I don't think is documented anywhere as concisely and practically as it is here.
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#7Very interesting. Statistically speaking, women are better than men in reading non-verbal information. I wonder if this is a part of YC success.
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#8Very interesting. Statistically speaking, women are better than men in reading non-verbal information. I wonder if this is a part of YC success.
Fat fingered. That was a reply to btilly's comment
Re: Jessica Livingston: What Goes Wrong
#9Very interesting. Statistically speaking, women are better than men in reading non-verbal information. I wonder if this is a part of YC success.
I think so. Within YC Jessica's nickname is The Social Radar. One nickname at least; the other is Panic.
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