ABOUT THIS EPISODELecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 01 – Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz – Intro to the course, “How to Start a Startup”
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How to Start a Startup : 02 – Sam Altman – Team and Execution
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam Altman finishes up “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution” by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup. Links: Blog post: Stupid Apps and Changing the World by Sam Altman Blog post: Do things that don’t scale by Paul Graham Click to view: show page on Awesound https://media.awesound.com/t/thwhttyre.mp3Podcast:… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 02 – Sam Altman – Team and Execution
How to Start a Startup : 20 – Sam Altman – Later-Stage Advice
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in (after product-market fit). Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! From YC Startup Class – How to Start a Startup – Stanford CS183B… Continue reading How to Start a Startup : 20 – Sam Altman – Later-Stage Advice
EconTalk : Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y Combinator
ABOUT THIS EPISODESam Altman, president of startup accelerating firm Y Combinator, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Y Combinator’s innovative strategy for discovering, funding, and coaching groundbreaking startups, what the company looks for in a potential startup, and Silicon Valley’s attitude toward entrenched firms. The two also discuss Altman’s thoughts on sectors of the… Continue reading EconTalk : Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y Combinator
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders : Drew Houston (Dropbox) – Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
ABOUT THIS EPISODEDrew Houston (Dropbox) – Finding Your Way as an EntrepreneurCo-Founder Drew Houston shares personal moments from starting the cloud-based file storage service Dropbox. Houston touches on the importance of persevering through early challenges at a startup, selecting the right co-founder, and focusing on solving problems to maximize customer happiness. https://rss.art19.com/episodes/d274afab-0491-4305-af83-b66ef70d41dc.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIhBMaXN0ZW5Ob3RlcwY6BkVU–65df200d6259f0f68f30dc32c47458d35a871516Podcast: Play in new… Continue reading Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders : Drew Houston (Dropbox) – Finding Your Way as an Entrepreneur
EconTalk : Paul Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-ups
ABOUT THIS EPISODEPaul Buchheit, developer of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Gmail project, how innovation works and doesn’t work in a large corporation, how Google has changed as it has grown, and corporate culture generally. The conversation then turns to social networking and what… Continue reading EconTalk : Paul Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-ups