Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 30, 2018
They’re discovering that telling their story, whether via a 280-word tweet, a 280-line speech or a 280-page book, may be the most effective way for them to connect with potential customers. With an effective story, your company lives in the minds of customers. If you lose the trust of your customers, you’re out of business.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2010
At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Relationships , I said back then. And I stand by that assertion.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers. I believe this is wrong.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. What Customers Want Its not just startups that have to worry about this.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Thus engineers who have the know how would be an asset. All what you said is so true.
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