Lessons Learned from Startups with Cute Mascots (Talk at UCLA 4-4-11)
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This document discusses lessons learned from startups that have cute mascots. It notes that having a cute mascot can help a startup gain popularity and users, but the most important things are finding a problem to solve that people want solved and making something people love using and will spread the word about through positive experiences.
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- 2. Lessons Learnedfrom Startups with Cute Mascots
- 5. Steve
- 6. Steve
- 31. (thanks!)
- 32. politicsgadgets science apple marijuana UCLA photography environment space howto videos pics economics world news ask science atheism christianity sports
- 34. The voice of the internet News before it happens
- 35. The biggest little community online Credit: xkcd
- 44. (only without the sex)
- 45. Find your reason (not $$$)
- 46. Find your we’re doomed but I need to get out of bed reason
- 52. Total monthly costs Rent
- 53. Total monthly costs Rent Food/beer
- 54. Total monthly costs Rent Food/beer Servers/bandwidth
- 55. Total monthly costs Rent Food/beer Servers/bandwidth $82,000 raised.
- 58. Your Web Startup
- 59. Your Web Startup
- 60. Your Web Startup
- 61. Your Web Startup
- 72. Start!
- 73. no one wants to use your website
- 75. make something people want
- 76. make something people love
- 77. Why?
- 78. We want you to love travel search.
- 84. Hotel search!
- 88. Users come first. Why market it? Just do it.
- 89. Why?
- 90. We want to make the world suck less.
- 91. We want to make the world suck less.
- 92. We want to make the world suck less.
- 93. We want to make the world suck less.
- 94. We want to make the world suck less.
- 96. for nerds!
- 97. $175,000 donated so far
- 104. Peace and Social Action Committee of the Midlothian Friends Meeting
- 105. Baller.
- 106. @mituK
- 107. @mituK
- 108. @mituK
- 109. There’sLOTS of workto be done.
- 110. (no pressure)
- 111. Questions?
- 112. questions?@kn0thing
Editor's Notes
- Wasn’t going to be a lawyer
- Our users did our advertising and pr
- Good news! Well wait… time for a poll…
- sure, it’s an end goal, but $$ alone isn’t going to get you out of bed every morning. There are much more rational ways for smart, hard working people to earn money.
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- One of my favorite photos. Post blitz.
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- If you can shelter yourselves
- And feed yourselves
- The price of hosting falls every day. All it takes is a creditcard to get enough setup to get a site online and seeing enough early traction for an angel round
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- Always remember this
- Always remember this
- Always remember this
- We get out of your way. No ads. Nothing obnoxious.
- We get out of your way. No ads. Nothing obnoxious.