Lecture 6 – Growth (Alex Schultz)

How to start a startup series Lecture 4 – Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung) So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users?Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup. …When […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 5 – Competition is for Losers (business strategy and monopoly theory) Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in “Competition is For Losers”. …if you’re the founder, entrepreneur, starting a company you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 6 – Growth (Alex Schultz)   Alex Schultz gives an overview of Growth for startups, speaking from a position of authority as the VP of Growth at Facebook. …Retention is the single most important thing for growth and retention comes from having a great idea and a great […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 7 – How to Build Products Users Love (Kevin Hale) Kevin Hale, Founder of Wufoo and Partner at Y Combinator, explains how to build products that create a passionate user base invested in your startup’s success. …the best way to get to $1 billion is to focus on […]

Serie “How to start a startup” Lecture 8 – How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don’t Scale, Press   Lecture 8 features 3 speakers: Stanley Tang, Founder of Doordash, covers How to Get Started. …We decided to create a simple experiment with restaurant delivery. We spent about an afternoon just putting together a quick […]

  How to start a startup series Lecture 10 – Culture (Brian Chesky, Alfred Lin)   Brian Chesky, Founder of Airbnb, and Alfred Lin, Former COO of Zappos and Partner at Sequoia Capital discuss how to build a great company culture. …how does one define company culture?…why does it matter? This is a quote from […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 11 – Hiring and Culture, Part 2 (Patrick and John Collison, Ben Silbermann) Stripe and Pinterest – two companies well known for their strong cultures. The founders – John Collison, Patrick Collison, and Ben Silberman – take Q&A from Sam in part 2 of Hiring and Culture. …Finding […]