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Barely managed to release a public beta this week in time for the presentation :)
https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/91 (personal games for kids ages 1-5)
Startup School and the weekly calls helped us identify our weaknesses and now we're better equipped towards scaling Nestify.
Our presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/532
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?
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?
* Our group's mentor (James, co-Founder of Lista YC S09) was totally committed and freely giving of his time. We could set up individual office hours for 1-on-1 advice and he put a ton of effort into surveying us & adjusting his approach so we could get maximum value.
* Being part of a 25 startup cohort (the size of our group) was hugely motivating. Even when the conversation in our video chat office hours wasn't perfectly incisive it was still energizing to hear other founders pushing at the same things you're facing.
* The internal Startup School networking tools were decently effective and I don't think YC talked about them too much when inviting people to apply. Building a network of other founders when you're bootstrapping in Cape Town, South Africa can be a little tough. Now I've got around 30 different folks I'm emailing with - all of whom have resonating experiences due to the Tinder-style networking tool in the Startup School portal.
* I also got around $5000 in AWS, Azure and GCP credits. Apart from being able to spend this year's infrastructure money on other business things (awesome!) I can also experiment pretty freely with the different platforms and pick the most ideal setup for my app.
Finally a shameless plug for my startup: https://watchdog443.com
I'm building a tool for ongoing monitoring of your HTTPS state & configuration. Feel free to mail me (address in profile) to chat about it or Startup School!
Also, here's our presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ljML9g0Yg
We were clueless to what to expect or how all this works, but through the guidance and many one on ones with our instructor we were able to manage it.
The course prepared us for meeting with investors, helped us with how to deal with the first rounds of investments (first money can be overwhelming) and how to do the non scalable things early on. It was definitely a useful course.
Also, being on a video call every week, listening to 20+ plus other people's business can be very valuable. Problems that seemed unique to us and unsolvable were solved with a quick chat with someone who already went through it.
Any way, i'll write a post about it eventually. In the meanwhile here is our presentation for Renly: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/435
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/16/renly-launches-studio-book...