By LARRY CHIANG
As the great curator of OPA (other people’s advice), I’m here to tell you YC advice is not in conflict. It’s just out of order
In the same spirit and “Makers Schedule versus Managers schedule”…, I PRESENT “THE PRE ENTREPRENEUR, PRE YC APPLICANT SCHEDULE (this also solves PG’s issue with “People always looking for the TRICK” in Lecture 3. CS 183b)
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“What they DO teach you at YC, (but don’t put in order!)” YC = y- Combinator.
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If you’re a late Winter ’14 app, you should text me 1-650-283-8008 and see the application’s slogan: “Make Something People Want”
Paul Buchheit said “Sell it before you make it” https://bit.ly/pbuchheit710
So before you get approved as a VIP applicant that doesn’t even apply… Master any of the ten tweets where I curate the advice: “Do Things That Dont Scale (but have momentum)” at #dttdsBHM the official Twitter app here
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Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing #dttdsBHM bit.ly/jlivingston710
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Did you realize there is a bell curve?!
www.duck9.com/blog/stanford-engineering/63030-students-for-cs-183b-distribute-winners-to-losers-in-a-bell-curve-pattern
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Omg, “No YC partner has a GSB, MBA degree.”
This can’t be correct |
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How Paul Graham would benefit from a Stanford MBA: #p584 Professor Grousbeck’s book
#641Campus #656Knight #stramgt355 |
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Page 584 spoke of where VC Vinod Khosla send out 400 sales letters as an engineer at Stanford.
Ditto Bill Gurley with his pre populated Palm Pilot full of industry contacts
ENGR145’s two anchor videos move you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve
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