Archive for April 19th, 2008

Startup School ‘08 Quotes

April 19, 2008

[Update: The best SuS video is on Omnisio! check it out!]

Here is a collection of some remarkable quotes from the YC startup school:

“Stop using the internet.” – Paul Graham, Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb
[Paul said this jokingly, while trying to setup his special 280 north presentation. And asked the bloggers to quit hogging the bandwidth.]

“Don’t just not be evil. Be good!” – Paul Graham, Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb
[I think I have found my company's moto: "Be Good!"]

“Cisco systems networks networks.” – Greg McAdoo, Partner, Sequoia Capital
[One-sentence Pitch for Cisco]

“A great entrepreneur does not fall off his board…” – Greg McAdoo, Partner, Sequoia Capital
[Wow, commentary to an impressive surfing video]

“1. Great Application; 2. ??? Price; 3. Profit!” – David Heinemeier Hansson, Creator of Rails; Partner, 37Signals

“Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming” – Craig Newmark
[From David's Presentation]

“Listen -> Decode -> Interpret -> Understand” – Paul Buchheit, Founder, FriendFeed; Creator, Gmail

“Limited Life Experiences + Overgeneralization = Advice” – Paul Buchheit, Founder, FriendFeed; Creator, Gmail

“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.’ ” – Paul Buchheit, Founder, FriendFeed; Creator, Gmail

“We only want to write stories that you don’t want written – use that to your advantage” – Mike Arrington, Founder, TechCrunch

Startup School 08!

April 19, 2008

[Update: The best SuS video is on Omnisio! check it out!]

OMG, I’m so excited. I’m counting the minutes until Startup School Begins.

“[Six Principles for making new things:] I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” – Paul Graham [1]

I can’t wait to listen to even more sage advice from PG and others…

Today’s Schedule:

9:00 David Lawee VP of Corporate Development, Google
9:30 Sam Altman Founder, Loopt
10:00 Jack Sheridan Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
10:30 Paul Graham Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb
11:00 Break
11:30 Greg McAdoo Partner, Sequoia Capital
12:00 David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Rails; Partner, 37Signals
12:30 Paul Buchheit Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail
12:55 Lunch
2:30 Jeff Bezos Founder, Amazon.com
3:30 Mike Arrington Founder, TechCrunch
3:55 Break
4:15 Marc Andreessen Founder, Ning, Opsware, Netscape; Creator of Mosaic
4:45 Peter Norvig Director of Research, Google

[1] Paul Graham’s Essay, 02/2008, Six Principles for Making New Things