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Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup

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Sam Altman shares key principles for startup success, including building a great product, identifying real trends, and maintaining momentum.

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed with a startup. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - Introduction A product so good people tell friends Easy to understand Exponential growth in market Real trends vs Fake trends Evangelical founder Ambitious vision Hard startup vs Easy Startup Confident and definite view of future (but flexible!) Huge if it works Team (non-obvious insights) - Optimists! - Idea generators - ‘We’ll figure it out’ - ‘I’ve got it’ - Action bias - The blessing or inexperience Momentum Competitive advantage Sensible business model Distribution strategy Traits of best founders - Frugality, focus, obsession, love Why startups win - One no vs One yes - Fast-changing markets - Platform shifts End

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davejon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Applications Are Now Open for YC Startup School – Starts in January”

…but I have customers, revenue and growth. I would particularly recommend solo founders to give Startup School a go. As a solo founder, the weekly updates with peers really helped keep me honest with myself. edit: Old (failed) Startup: link New Startup: link edit2: If you watch one SUS video ever then watch this 16 minute video from Sam Altman: link to this video…
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karmakazeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Startup idea checklist”

This is very much my line of thought. I have come to use different terms for these: - Startup is what I now call VC funded companies. A startup can and often does 'make the world better' for some definition of better - A profitable side-business that could grow into a large stable company starts as a side-project/side-business. This short Sam Altman "How to Succeed with a Startup" video0 plainly covers why this is so. 0 link to this video
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augustton Hacker News • Disputes

On “How to Start a Startup (2014)”

Maybe I'm not seeing the right material but when I watch stuff like link to this video from him, all I hear are mind-numbing platitudes. Having a "sensible business model" might have been my favorite piece of advice from that one.
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codetrotteron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event”

I’d heard of it but didn’t know it was open source. Is Fuchsia in a state where you can boot it in a VM? Wikipedia mentioned how to develop applications for it with Dart. Did anyone try developing applications for it? In a talk 1 by Sam Altman I saw on the YC channel on YouTube, Sam said that an advantage that startups have over big corp is that the latter are not able to “turn their battleship around” as fast, developing software for new platforms. Hmmm... (pondering). 1: I think it was this one: link to this video
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