{"id":2749,"date":"2014-09-30T22:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2014-09-30T22:35:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T02:35:57","slug":"larry-chiangs-lecture-3-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/larry-chiangs-lecture-3-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Chiang’s Lecture 3 Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

#<\/s>CS183b<\/a>\u00a0Point number 1. startups are as unnatural as skiing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Remember there are ski instructors. Not running instructors.
\n2:46 YC function was to tell founders the MISTAKES THEY’RE ABOUT TO MAKE.<\/p>\n

counter intuitive ideas contradict your ideas.<\/p>\n

Skiing is counterintuitive so there are more instructors.<\/p>\n

#2 what you need isn’t expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n

This class is about startups. Startups are about users!!!!
\nMake something people want.<\/p>\n

Artifacts of fakeness. Young founder think figuring out the tricks. Figuring out the “extracurricular” — Growth hacks.
\n10:45 growth hack is just to make a good product (so that you can go viral \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

#3) Gaming the system stops working.
\nHow do you wanna win what you win by doing<\/p>\n

#4)\u00a0 Startups are all consuming.
\nits all hidden.<\/p>\n

Founders all say: It never gets easier. Total volume of worry doesn’t decrease.
\nstart a startup in college. Are you crazy?! (17:12)<\/p>\n

18:45 Paul is saying you’re damned if you start a startup.
\n1839 DO not start a startup
\n1900 Do not start a startup in college
\n19:19How to have a good life
\nPaul is saying you’re damned if you start Fb 20:00<\/p>\n

More likely to succeed if you wait<\/p>\n

#5) You can’t tell what you might become<\/p>\n

Tough to predict how ambitious. It is verrry tough. Founders think they know, but they don’t. Military is the same way<\/p>\n

attitudes have no correlation to success.<\/p>\n

if you’re terrified, you shouldn’t do it.
\nTry. But not now. 24:20 (confirm time. Link tweet<\/p>\n

6\/ get ideas by trying to not think of startup ideas.<\/p>\n

Bad. but bad and plausible.
\nTake a step back<\/p>\n

Turn your brain into a machine that gins out “side projects”<\/p>\n

27:30 Unconscious competent.<\/p>\n

case after case – later userful<\/p>\n

maybe I have an “Internal compass” 28:02<\/p>\n

“gratifying your interest energetically”<\/p>\n

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