YC Startup School -创业学堂笔记--翻译更新中
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
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