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How to think like a startupLoic Le Meur
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How do startup entrepreneurs find ideas?
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few”
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Meditation and mindfulness is popular in Silicon Valley and now in Davos
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Provide benefit to the customer - anything else is a waste
Learning to see waste and then systematically eliminate it
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“I am still learning.”
- Michelangelo, at age 87
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Airbnb started because of a shortage of hotel rooms in San Francisco
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Uber started because of a shortage of cabs in Paris
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Ryan Hoover, Product Hunt
Started just from an email list
Gathered a small community of people addicted to new products
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Naval Ravikant, Angel List
Weekly email of curated angel investors
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Craig Newmark, Craigslist
Request and Gives from Craig’s friends
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Jamie Siminoff, Ring
Tried 3 different ideas in his garage
Struggled to find initial funding
Now approaching 1,000 employees
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Create an environment for creativity - Further future
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Create an environment for creativity
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Create an environment for creativity
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Create an environment for creativity
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Create an environment for creativity
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Millennials don’t want to own anything
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Tom McLeod,OMNI
Stores everything that clutters your life
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Millennials don’t want to plan anything and talk to anyone
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Facebook “M”
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Millennials want to change the world
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Improve the world
“I just wanted more electric cars on the road”
- Elon Musk
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“Make the world better”
“All business should make the world better”
- Leila JanahLXMI / Sama
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If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will still fail above everyone else’s success
James Cameron (Avatar)
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Copying fast is okay
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They don’t care about copying ...and making it better
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Instagram stories and Snapchat stories
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Snap's Spectacles are the beginning of camera-first future
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SV entrepreneurs surround themselves with investors who provide more than $
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Teams are remote, own the business and don’t feel like employees
Mix of highly experimented professionals and very creative millennials
Matthew Mansfield
Dami Dina
Kevin Wolf
Jean-Jacques Borie
“We’re too slow and too old in this company”
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SV entrepreneurs launch their product really fast
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"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late"
- Reid Hoffman
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Entrepreneurs iterate quickly
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Entrepreneurs break the rules
Travis Kalanick and Uber got sued non stop but kept going
Uber and Airbnb were illegal from day one in many places but kept operating
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Entrepreneurs make everything transparent
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Even your own company is rated
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Entrepreneurs acknowledge issues and respond quickly
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Elon Musk turns a tweet into a company wide change in 6 days
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Elon Musk turns a tweet into a company wide change in 6 days
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#1 Advantage of a start up... Speed
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“We’re going in full throttle. That ought to keep those fighters off our back.”
- Luke Skywalker
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Speed is the #1 competitive weapon
Rapid product beats competition
Rapid results builds team morale which leads to more success
Rapid results generate more interest
Rapid results increases valuation
(NFX Guild)
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Always keep momentum.
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- Henry Ford
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
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Set the time, not the output
What product can I build in:
3 months? (Directhit, Xfire)
8 days? (Hot or Not)
30 days? (Jiff)
1 month? (Meerkat)
(NFX Guild)
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Twitter’s MVP
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Linkedin’s MVP
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Facebook’s MVP
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Google’s MVP
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How startups win
No QA
No Usability Studies
No Focus Groups
No Politics
No Endless Debates
No Board of Directors
No Bus Dev Deals
No PR
No Marketing Spend
No Budgeting Process
(NFX Guild)
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“At Google X, we embrace failure.”
- Astro Teller
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Most Startups Fail
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Entrepreneurs fail fast
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And pivot
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Startups ranked by number of years from founding to $1 billion valuation
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Flickr should have built Instagram but they did not move fast enough
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Entrepreneurs work with an ecosystem of developers
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Twitter decided developers weren’t so important anymore
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Entrepreneurs Embrace wikipedia style volunteer collaboration
Slush and their 2,200 volunteers
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Entrepreneurs challenge the current players by re-inventing the modelMetromile charges insurance protection per mile
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Entrepreneurs constantly reinvent their businessUber selling data
Tesla next?
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