Loved this quote:
...this is exacerbated by the existence of this term "growth hacks"... whenever you hear anybody talk about "growth hacks", just mentally translate it... to "bullshit".
Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup
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#12I don't know if I'm alone on this one, but I thought his presentation was a bit scattered. Not taking away from him in any way, but his examples were not effectively backing up the points he was making.
You could even see him hesitating and questioning his own statements in his head a few times.
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#13Timestamped and summarized notes: https://timelined.com/how-to-start-a-startup/lecture-3-how-t...
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#15Here you have some notes on the lecture. By the way, we are a couple of italian friends building FlashUp, a platform for sharing notes on lectures, videos, books, panels so other people can enjoy the nitty-gritty without having to spend hours and hours glued to their screens. Any feedback is appreciated. --- NOTES: --> Startups are very counter-intuitive – if you trust and never question your intuition you will make…
More notes from me: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/09/30/htsas-lec03/
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#16Here you have some notes on the lecture. By the way, we are a couple of italian friends building FlashUp, a platform for sharing notes on lectures, videos, books, panels so other people can enjoy the nitty-gritty without having to spend hours and hours glued to their screens. Any feedback is appreciated. --- NOTES: --> Startups are very counter-intuitive – if you trust and never question your intuition you will make…
You're notes in Markdown: http://markdownshare.com/view/c97aed92-513d-46f0-b097-0fb12e...
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#17I share pg's distaste for the mouthful that is "entrepreneurship" (http://youtu.be/ii1jcLg-eIQ?t=30m35s). How about resurrecting the root, and using "enterprise" instead? Moving a language as big as English is a Brobdingnagian task, but few people are as well-positioned as pg to (re)introduce "enterprise" as a more economical alternative to "entrepreneurship".
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#18I really enjoyed this lecture and I found it hard to take down notes. Mainly because there's more experience involved in this lecture, than "note worthy" information.
I'm not saying there's something wrong with Sam's lectures, but there's a stark contrast between the two formats which makes me even more interested in seeing what the other speakers will bring.
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#19I live outside of a town with a large tech culture. I often wonder if a large part of success is just being around the right community. So you are getting a lot of feedback and have real connections to gain information from. I wonder what the best way to find/make a community like that in my area would be or if I am just out of luck and should be somewhere that already has a large tech culture. I am in South FL btw.
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