Greg McAdoo discusses evaluating startup companies for investment at Sequoia Capital
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David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of the Ruby on Rails framework and Partner at 37Signals gives insight into creating a profitable startup company.
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Mike Arrington speaks at Startup School 2008 about how to get, and how to respond to press for your startup.
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Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, speaks at Startup School 08 about how to create a successful startup.
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Paul Buchheit, Founder of FriendFeed and creator of GMail, discusses how to listen to your users at Startup School 08.
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Marc Andreessen, Founder of Ning, Opsware, Netscape and the Creator of Mosaic, provides his insight to entrepreneurs at Startup School 08.
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Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com, speaks at Startup School 2008
Comments
TAM: Total Addressable Market
SAM: Serviceable Available Market
SOM: Share of Market (aka Market Share)
That was great. 3rd awesome video I've seen today from Startup School.
oh man, you missed the last part, where he played the video clip of the surfer in motion!
t'es qui?
Que dis-tu?
what
jawbone?
what an idiot
JAWBONE
Tu parles french!
If you have an idea how to grow a hair again, Sequoia will backup you.
this slide adds value to my presentation
nice curtains
shut the ef up
expensive pullover
hard
apples are cool
and yummy
10% of the nasdaq's market cap is from sequoia companies
we're so awesome i don't even need to tell you how awesome we are
oh no wait
1000000+ BUZZWORDS
400 Failures
Very nice sweater
legendary for geogaphic focus
LEGEND... wait for it....DARY!
i was here
who cares about these notation?
more like distrction than anything else
EPIC
Web 2.0
whats browntech?
oil
I think it's Indian
sh1t
browntech = power from burning crap
it took 5 partners and 18 meetings for us to coin the phrase browntech. i thought it was a little poopy, but mike moritz overruled me.
Oh wow, look at this compay!
to be fair thats a cool slide
This was like 5 years ago. They not have color cameras way back then?
oh dear.
ran out of room for bullsh1t here
'modest outcomes' = fuc.king failures
going native?
Dude, keep your slide's text short... geez
Not exactly YC's way....
lame
Dude.. where's my vc?
you are lame
i am a twat
weakass metaphor coming right up
a shark
no, i am a twat
yup
another one
SHARK!!!!!!
another shark!!! no wai
doing things with hands
owwwwwwwww stop hitting me
thanks
"Hi, I'm a Mac..."
"...and I'm a PC"
Way to "ride" the metaphor into the ground dude...
je suis un brand whore.
What... no more about the wave ?
I want to hear more about the wave
oh... there's the wave again..
Total Adressable Market
some other market ?
this guy is such BSer..
Samwise Gamgee
Servable Market?
Stucture of market?
Slow down boy!
I love puzzles... especially ones without a picture.
ZzzZZzz....
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Here is the right side.
Twitter
G
lol
you said homo
Sequoia Capital Bullshits Bullshitters
i m smart
I work at sequoia
lol
or you don't understand how to give a BS free talk
he forgot to mention Sequoia's one liner
i one liner'd yur mom
i know all the answers because I am smart
everyone wants to build a dynasty? um no.
i dont need a dynasty. i'll be happy with 1mil
yup
im really proud of this slide
i think the little guy is easy to see. and sumo rings aren't that big. my bet is on the giant.
hey that is my cousin.
leverage your ability to iterate rapidly
net it out
this guy is a wizard with meaningless buzzwords
disruptive oppurtunity
how bored
i am
the longer this talk goes
i am here
I am here
ecosystem things
internet portal
diversify
mobile
you are causing me pain
disruptive oppurtunities
im in yur base disrupting yur ecosystem things
all your base are belong to me
sticky
so....many...buzzwords.
subset to accumulate advantage
WAVE AGAIN
No, not the wave again
This is a wave
oh jesus the fraking wave
i want you to walk away from VCs who are full of hot air
I am trying to surf down the wave, but I am stuck... man!
surfing metaphor again
dude doesn't even surf
this is me
doesn't surf?
lets go surfing now, come on lets OSX Safari with me...
guy couldn't name a great surfer to save his life
In other words only the bad surfers can move the waves in a different direction. I think thats what he means, but I am not all that sure...
neither is he
leverage waves
Take away the wave. It's the wave people. The wave
AGAIN!
AGAIN!
Nice wave
boooooo
wow i'm awesome they're clapping for me!
where is this video?
validated wave
we use our ecosystem things
We leverage waves as a resource to help aid our stuff.
im going to move my head around watch this
marketing BS
oh snap!
structural advantages
and ecosystem things
You gotta ride the wave
mmmm
yipee
Focus on waves
thank god
the last thing we need is more marketing bs
broad
HOT!
NOT!!
Back to the waves
I'm super high right now
high level rideable market waves
fu.k the waves
lol
Ride the wave
"figure out the right way to ride it"
Riding waves is fun!
wtf
Wave
Wave goodbye to the waves
O - O
we don't invest in pr0n we just like to look at it
They are just made they missed out on PornTube.com
my geogaphic location is your mom
test
reasonable access to human capital
monitzation mobile widgets
monetisation
widgets
waves
waterproof mobile for surfers?
understand the complexity of the ecosystem
lol
the way to make money is to offer 'payment support'? how about you just charge people for stuff?
social media space
there isn't a business model around widgets says captain obvious
non advertising monetization of widgets
the widget space
revenue waaave
s
shut the fook up
i like your style.
woohoo