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Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by nxh »

prostoalex wrote: post #44
sbisker wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to disagree here. Folks with failed startups are as diverse as the startups they built (or just as often, struggled to build). The simple reason why is because while a startup is the best place to learn how to start a startup, it isn't always the best place to learn how to be an engineer. At least, not the sort of robust engineering (hopefully) done at established companies, where you have to understand existi…

That is true, I almost put a caveat there that small startups (or schools) teach programming, while large companies teach software engineering, but nowadays most large technology companies have onboarding/mentoring process designed around that, as a lot of the processes tend to be company-specific. > many acqui-hire employees themselves have to go through interviews at the acquiring company, finding themselves on the…

With the word startup I actually mean founders and early employees. Sorry for the unclear wording and thank you for your opinion.

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by dsugarman »

nxh wrote: post #25

The fact is most startups will fail[1]. If I fail and try again and again, statistically I will probably fail eventually. Therefore, most of us will end up working for other companies. Statistically again, there are a lot more employees in well established companies than startups so most of us will likely end up working for well established/large organizations. So my question is: does the experience, the knowledge I…

some people have a much higher probability of winning

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

bira wrote: post #7

Here 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…

Where are you based? I'm Italian, living in SF.

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by coralreef »

Glan1984 wrote: post #56
bira wrote: post #7

Here 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…

Zuckerberg can backpack wherever he wants, whenever he wants. He does what he wants.

Unless he's rolling with security, he'd be taken hostage for sure.

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by kanwisher »

jereme wrote: post #60
bira wrote: post #7

Here 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…

I just watched this vid from Thailand. Lots of folks heads-down working on startups here... :)

Hah sitting in Bangkok here also ;) I liked that

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by eastbayjake »

sbisker wrote: post #36

Am I the only person who ever found the course list for an MBA genuinely interesting ? Like, intellectually so. I get the general usefulness of advising undergraduates that MBAs are, in general, a bad idea for them. They're certainly about as poor of a financial investment these days as a degree in English. But the hopeless idealist in me asks if it isn't possible to get an MBA to actually try to theorize about custo…

Care to expand on the thought that MBAs are poor financial investments? They've seemed like a far better educational investment than law school or most PhDs. (I'm genuinely curious as a programmer at a startup who's seriously considering business school because I find it intellectually interesting. They do seem like a bad idea if you want to do startups, but otherwise a solid investment.)

Re: Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup

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Post by squeaky-clean »

giulianob wrote: post #19

I 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.

Hey, another SFL hacker! I definitely think community helps you. The feedback and connections must be great, but for me the biggest benefit is just the motivation it provides. Having a community, large or small, that shares my interests keeps me driven, and I don't feel like I have that here.

It feels very lonely and discouraging to spend 12 hours on a Saturday banging out a personal project, and then not know anyone who would care to see it.

I hardly know any other techies/programmers. And of the ones I do know, 90% of them are 9-5 programmers, who are done talking about it once they clock out, and don't have their own personal projects. That's good for them! But that's not me, nor who I want to surround myself with.

I know there's that space in Wynwood, I think it's called The Lab. It seems like a good place to meet people, but all the events they do are usually while I'm working or something else occurs where I just can't attend.

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