YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The “end” in legal organizations, is a document of some kind. Documents are their widget, the thing legal teams build. Finding information that is relevant to creating a document is helpful. Actually producing that document, though, is far more helpful. It is merely a means to an end. Pretty cool stuff.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Connecticut Algorithm Warrant 246

David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2015

I made a lot of mistakes at Bridgewater, and this was by design. One of the reasons I put some effort in designing a fitness-centered office and home was because I was seeking out the root cause (#148) for a common problem, which is the poor fitness level of the average office worker. The Principles lead you to be wrong a lot.

Design 60

Design Connecticut Venture Capital Portfolio 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Lecture 14: How To Operate. Lecture 17: How To Design Hardware Products. Design interactions that produce “moments of joy”, because if you can get your product right it can become a user’s entry point to a life-long relationship with all of your future products. If a founder has work-life balance, they’re not committed enough.

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

We started franchising and slowly expanded from Fairfield County in Connecticut over to New York. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. While this vision was openly discussed, it wasn’t clearly documented anywhere.

Connecticut 180

Connecticut New York City New York Australia 180

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. It still needs some documentation cleanup and I'm still teaching the course, which has actually been super weird to spend time every week in the middle of all this stuff that's going on.

Czech Republic 113

Czech Republic San Francisco Campaign Washington 113