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YC Startup School -创业学堂笔记--翻译更新中
By: 小芳 发表于 2014-10-12 23:51:43 · 66348次点击 回复:6
官方网址 http://www.startupschool.org/ 本笔记原文地址 http://ryansrich.com/startup-school-notes/
这是美国时间2014年10月11日 在美国硅谷的活动
11:00AM - Ron Conway
SV Angel
罗恩·康韦-硅谷著名天使投资人，Google和Facebook的早期投资者罗恩·康韦(Ron Conway)其一直遵循的投资策略是“团队第一，创意第二”的理念。- Entrepreneurs are always entrepreneurs. For life.
- Entrepreneurship is self-selecting
- Born with the basics: worth-ethic, ambitions, aggressive, touch
- Starting a company is the hardest thing on earth to do
- Being a driven person is something you are born with
- Being a founder is a vocation
- You have to learn to hire a management team
- Learn how to manage
- Learn how to find people
- Spread your vision and motivate people to be like you
- Are you willing to work 24/7?
- Moonlighting a startup does not exist
- The company is first in line
- Your company is your religion. Fanatical
- You have to be a good communicator
- Lead by example (PG)
- Educate yourself with advice
- With desire you can DIY
- The first thing to do is that your idea has to be infectious. Two people who know each other
- Feed off your co-founders
- Every one company they invest in they look at 30
- VC industry belongs to young people
- People in their 20s are the good pickers
- Older people are better at giving advice
- "I'm an age bigot"
- They want to hire really smart 20 year olds
- It's not about where you are at. It's about when you get that 'aha' moment. This is it, this is the company
- Business idea is based on personal experience
- You stop what you are doing and pursue that idea
- Set yourself up to get these moments (PG)
- Best companies are based on a founder that has a need and builds a business around that
- The initial business is not for other people
- Once that initial phase is over it's all about users
- "The more compelling the story is the more excited I get"
- First question: "what inspired you to start the company"
- People need to be driven by their ideas
- It's important to know the founders and how they interact with each other
- Most co-founders collaborate and come up with an idea together
- One feels the need but they both "build" or work on the idea
- Work on interesting problems with other people (PG)
- There are very few single co-founder companies
- The relationship between co-founders cannot be forced
- Evangelize your product and talk to everyone you can find until someone loves the idea (that's your co-founder)
- Persistence and conviction makes and idea great. Not the idea
- SV Angel only invests in people
- They cannot predict the success or failure of an idea. So they invest in the traits of the individual
- (What VCs look for) Rifle focus on the product to the point of being rude.
- (On Drew Houston) Didn't invest right away. Loved the founders, didn't love the idea. They hesitated
- They want to make the right decision about a marketplace
- (Beginning of SV Angel) They decided to invest in this thing called the internet
- (On being a founder) Be in it because you love great founders
- "Watch the rocket ship take off"
- Working your ass off is what you want (not money)
- They have to be crazy focused on the product
- All founders should care about is the product. Literally nothing else
- If you focus on the product the way to measure success is to obtain users
- Focus on the product and business follows (PG)
- Traction is the only way to tell if a product is working
- Success is binary. Your product is either exploding or not
- Some co-founders are too prone to denial that their product is failing
- Your team will know your product is failing before you do
- Once everyone is on the same team it's possible to right the ship