Here's a talk I gave at MIT for Startup Bootcamp on October 12, 2009

1. serendipity in startup life & why it pay$ to be good

2. serendipity in startup life & why it pay$ to be good (as opposed to be evil)

3. who the hell are you?

5. Steve

8. SELL-OUTS

9. no one wants to use your website

10. My mom

11. only your mom wants to use your website

12. you need evangelists

13. FAIL

16. NOM NOM HERE’S A TERM SHEET

17. you don’t need PRfirms

22. stickers, wtf??

24. (thanks!)

25. keep it real

26. web 2.0 a.k.a labor 2.0

27. *4chan exception

29. Goodness is free PR

30. “Don’t be evil”

31. “Don’t be evil… unless you’re allowing smaller evils for the greater good on the evil scale balancing system.”

33. don’t need to be exceptionally good

34. just be exceptional

37. woah.

39. imbue a free shirt with win

40. facilitate serendipity

42. Charisma.

44. we can’t all be Danbut that’s OK

45. be root-for-able

46. karma matters

48. you will fuck up

50. (I don’t care what Harvard says)

51. you will fuck up

52. being good is insurance for when you’re dumb

53. other times. it makes things happen

62. (16 months later)

63. how we got acquired (in pictures)

73. rock on

76. Condewha?

79. serendipity in startup life & why it pay$ to be good

80. BONUS! CHOOSEYOUR COFOUNDERWISELY

85. Dear cancer, Fuck you. - alexis

86. Make something people want.

87. Make something people love.

88. Do something you love.

89. questions? @kn0thingon the twitter