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Paul Buchheit at Startup School 08

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  • Recommended by 3 people: 3 on Hacker News.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2010 to 2014.
  • Presented by Paul Buchheit, Founder of FriendFeed and creator of GMail
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

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Paul Buchheit discusses how to listen to users, process feedback, and build successful startups by aiming for one hundred happy users.

Paul Buchheit, Founder of FriendFeed and creator of GMail, discusses how to listen to your users at Startup School 08.

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3 people recommend this

What people say. Recommended as a classic talk on processing user feedback and understanding the limits of advice when building a startup.

alabuton Hacker News • Recommends

On “How I learned to stop giving advice”

Paul Buchheit said something similar at startup school years ago and I watch the video every once in a while to remind myself not to be similarly prescriptive when I meet new people. His key takeaway slide was a simple equation: Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization = Advice The full video has more info on how to get past the advice you hear and actually process feedback: link to this video
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grinichon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ben Horowitz: Things Some VCs Do That I Don’t Like”

Paul Buchheit had a good quote at the 08 startup school. If someone says: "That's impossible." You should understand it as: "According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that's very unlikely." Video: link to this video Slides: link
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On “Ask HN: Tell me about your failed startup.”

If someone says "that's impossible", you can interpret it as: "According to my limited experience and very narrow understanding of reality, it's very unlikely." An oldie but goodie - link to this video
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DanielRibeiroon Hacker News • Mentions

On “If you can't find 10 people who say they'll buy it...”

Paul Bucheit said something similar on Startup School 2008 ( link to this video ): "You should aim for 100 happy users". And he mentions that being happy is quite hard to accomplish, as happy users will not put up with any unevenness they see. I find this more useful for startups that are still looking for a business model (mostly consumer oriented startups).
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revoradon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. ”

Viral and limitation don't go hand in hand. Paul Buchheit made this point realy well in his startup school talk couple of years ago: link to this video
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alabuton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Interview with Facebook's Andrei Alexandrescu”

…h, so maybe this would be one piece of advice: learn how to learn, and stick with principles; mastering individual technologies will follow. Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. The best people in our métier are those who know how to quickly become experts in some particular field." Reminds me of Paul B's video from startup school: link to this video…
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nostrademonson Hacker News • Mentions

On “Evidence that “disfluencies” in speech enhance comprehension”

I'd love to see the study broken out by people who are listening for confidence vs. content . I recall showing my mom Paul Buchheit's Startup School 08 talk: link to this video I thought it was great, and I remember listening very intently to parse out exactly what he was saying and figure out what he was saying. I showed it to my mom, and her first reaction was "Why are you listening to him? He seems kinda nebbishy." Notice how many pauses, umms, y'knows, and other filler words are in that speech. I ignored them because I already knew what he had accomplished; my assumption was that he knew what he was talking about, and so I should pay close attention. My mom, who knows nothing about tech and didn't…
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