As a student, it will hold you back when you are working for startup, because you have a build-in escape hatch. Even you fail, you can still be back at school anyway. This is not good for startup.
As earning more money, it will draw you back from creating cheap thing, which may change the world.
Don't wait to get more experience before starting a company, you will lose those student co-founders who will be involved in other project they don't want to abandon...That's True. this has changed my attitude towards student startup, a huge advantage.
Ha? Not to work for Google, because there are ZERO startup come out of there.
It's best to work for a startup if you want to start a startup.
you will end up rich,, or the startup will ge bought, in which case it will start to suck to work there and easy to leave. or most likely, the thing will blow up and you'll be free again. Lalala, that's true.
starting startups is harder than you expect, but you are also capable of more than you expect.
Work experience is not some specific expertise, but the elimination of certain habits left over from childhood.elimination of the flak reflex - the ability to get things done, with no excuses.
Getting rich means you can stop treading water.
understand the relationship between money and work changes the way you work. you work for doing things other people want, focus more on the user.
the most important skill for a startup founder isn't a programming technique, it's a knack for understanding users and figuring out how to give them what they want.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Monday, February 26, 2007
Key note on reading "The 18 mistakes that kill startups"
link: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Not Making something Users want
1) Single Founder
2) Bad location
3) Marginal Niche
4) Derivative Idea
5) Obstinacy
6) Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching too early
10. having no specific user in mind
11. raising too little money
12. spending too much
13.raising too much money
14. poor investor management
15. sacrificing users to supposed profit
16. not wanting to get your hands dirty
17. fights between founders
18. a half-hearted effort
link: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Not Making something Users want
1) Single Founder
2) Bad location
3) Marginal Niche
4) Derivative Idea
5) Obstinacy
6) Hiring Bad Programmers
7. Choosing the Wrong Platform
8. Slowness in Launching
9. Launching too early
10. having no specific user in mind
11. raising too little money
12. spending too much
13.raising too much money
14. poor investor management
15. sacrificing users to supposed profit
16. not wanting to get your hands dirty
17. fights between founders
18. a half-hearted effort
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