YC Startup School -创业学堂笔记--翻译更新中

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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