how to start a startup

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 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 […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 12 – Building for the Enterprise (Aaron Levie) Aaron Levie – founder of Box, enterprise master, Twitter comedic genius. In this lecture, he’ll convince you to Build for the Enterprise.  …I am going to try and convince you that everyone else that speaks during this whole class is […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 14 – How to Operate (Keith Rabois) What should the CEO be doing on a day to day basis? How do you make sure the company is moving in the right direction? Keith Rabois, Partner at Khosla Ventures and former COO of Square, tackles the nitty gritty – […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 15 – How to Manage (Ben Horowitz) You are not the only one whom your decisions impact. Ben Horowitz, founder of Andreessen Horowitz and Opsware, discusses this important management perspective that founders miss, with, of course, the gratuitous rap lyric or two sprinkled in. …When you’re making a […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 16 – How to Run a User Interview (Emmett Shear) Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on. In this lecture, Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch, covers the latter. What […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 17 – How to Design Hardware Products (Hosain Rahman) Hosain Rahman, CEO and Founder of Jawbone, covers the design process for building hardware products users love. …Wearables are going to be the center of this revelation around everything being connected and smart. We are going to drive what […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 18 – Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy) There’s a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (equity allocation, vesting), accounting, and other overhead right will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Kirsty […]

How to start a startup series Lecture 19 – Sales and Marketing; How to Talk to Investors (with Tyler Bosmeny, ceo of Clever; Michael Seibel, founder of justin.tv; Dalton Caldwell & Qasar Younis, partners at YCombinator) Three segments in this lecture: Tyler Bosmeny, founder and CEO of Clever, starts off today’s lecture with an overview […]

The last class of How to start a startup series Sam Altman speaks about things that a founder should ignore when starting, but become important a year in. Things like management, hr, legal, accounting, marketing, pr, psychology. …The first area we’re going to talk about is management. In the beginning of a company, there is […]

Y Combinator’s How to start a startup series Lecture 9 – How to Raise Money Panel :  Marc Andreessen, Founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway, Founder of SV Angel, and Parker Conrad, Founder of Zenefits. Two big venture capitalist and a unicorn startup founder explain how the vc world works, what they look for, […]