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Every startup begins with an idea. This is a talk on how to come up with startup ideas and how to use validation to pick the ones worth working on. It's based on the book "Hello, Startup" (http://www.hello-startup.net/). You can find the video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmiE8d_5Pw
Every startup begins with an idea. This is a talk on how to come up with startup ideas and how to use validation to pick the ones worth working on. It's based on the book "Hello, Startup" (http://www.hello-startup.net/). You can find the video of the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkmiE8d_5Pw
“I invented nothing new. I
simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked 50 or 10 or even 5 years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing.
Progress happens when all the
factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.” – Henry Ford
“The surprising fact is that
companies large and small, established corporate giants as well as brand new startups, fail in 9 out of 10 attempts to launch their new products.”
Sell product at: $1 to
1 billion: Coca-Cola (cans of soda) $10 to 100 million: Johnson & Johnson (household products) $100 to 10 million: Blizzard (World of Warcraft) $1,000 to 1 million: Lenovo (laptops) $10,000 to 100,000: Toyota (cars) $100,000 to 10,000: Oracle (enterprise software) $1,000,000 to 1,000: Countrywide (high-end mortgages) (from the Stanford Startup Engineering Course)
Research tools: 1. Newspapers, books,
journals 2. Government reports, SEC filings 3. Google 4. Google Trends 5. World Bank Data 6. AYTM Surveys 7. Nielson Research
Light bulb (blue): Serge Saint
Light bulbs (many): Andrew Moore Thomas Edison with bulb: Wikimedia Isaac Newton: Wikimedia Archimedes: Wikimedia Thomas Edison: Louis Bachrach Potted plant: Craig Sunter Windows: Wikimedia Mac OS: Wikimedia Xerox Alto: DigiBarn NLS Computer: Mother of All Demos Journey: Wikimedia Elton John: Wikimedia Beatles: Wikimedia Lady Gaga: Wikimedia Information vs knowledge: gapingvoid Everything is a Remix: Kirby Ferguson Copy, transform, combine: Kirby Ferguson Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz: Wikimedia Isaac Newton: Wikimedia Alfred Russel Wallace: Wikimedia Charles Darwin: Wikimedia Elisha Gray: Wikimedia Alexander Graham Bell: Wikimedia Henry Ford: Wikimedia Moleskine: Barn Images Linus Pauling: Wikimedia Glasses: Matheus Almeida Walk in the park: Brian Smithson Barbed wire: Alexandre Dulaunoy Wayne Gretzky Game: Alan Kay Blueprint: Will Scullin References & image credits, part 1
References & image credits, part
2 Egg: Kate Ter Haar Meeting: Simon Blackley Steve Blank: Wikimedia Death Valley: 白士 李 Men shaking hands: Didriks Toothpaste: William Warby Colgate aisle: Fredrik Rubensson Crest Pro Health: m01229 Listerine: Mike Mozart Crowd: Scott Cresswell Arm wrestling: U.S. Army Europe Images Community: Kat Clock: Earls37a Evan Williams: Wikimedia MVP car: Henrik Kniberg Wayne Gretzky: Wikimedia Paul Graham: Wikimedia Lab experiment: UCL Dean Simonton: UC Davis Google Analytics: Blue Fountain Media Coffee cup: OiMax Truck: darkday Report: Juhan Sonin