The document provides tips for first-time startup founders covering several important areas to consider when starting a new company. It recommends focusing on choosing good co-founders with integrity, thoroughly researching ideas by talking to potential customers and competitors, keeping teams small and lean, constantly improving execution through minimalism and customer feedback, carefully planning finances and legal aspects, and maintaining a balanced lifestyle without excessive stress or long work hours. Overall, the tips emphasize the importance of preparation, collaboration, continual learning and improvement when launching a new startup.

1. Tips & Tricks for 1 st Timers Ishay Green

2. Scope Things I think you should pay attention to in order to avoid fucking up your first startup

3. YOUR LIFE 1

4. Your Life Your family is an obstacle on your way to becoming rich…

5. Your Life … and don’t get me started on marriage and children

6. Your Life NOT!

7. Your Life Your new startup is just an episode in your life’s journey

8. Your Life Are having 100 Million dollars at the age of 45 worth missing your youth?

9. CO-FOUNDERS 2

10. Co-Founders Finding good partners is more difficult than raising capital for a lousy Idea

11. Co-Founders - Integrity Integrity is #1 quality

12. Co-Founders Work with your co-founders for a while, reach significant understandings and put them in writing

13. Co-Founders - Integrity Identify the partners’ weaknesses

14. Co-Founders Divide work and responsibility. Trust your partners

15. THE IDEA 3

16. The Idea Revolution VS Evolution

17. The Idea Stay in your domain of expertise

18. The Idea Know everything there is to know about the idea space

19. The Idea Research; talk to as many non-believers as possible

20. The Idea Don't be too secretive, ideas are trivial compared with their execution

21. The Idea Prepare a short executive summary presenting your vision

22. The Idea Don’t expect to raise $1M with a shitty paper written in bad Ingleesh

23. The Idea Challenge yourself by picking a goal that will stretch your capabilities and determination to their limit

24. The Idea If you are 100% certain it can be done, you are probably not far enough ahead of the competition

25. The Idea Make sure that your startup is not built over a loop hole

26. THE TEAM 4

27. The Team Startups cannot afford any spare heads (Lean & Mean)

28. The Team If someone doesn't deliver, let them go

29. The Team Recruit the core people on a trust basis

30. The Team Don't hire good developers

31. The Team Aim for a positive and optimistic team (You cannot afford more then one downer)

32. EXECUTION 5

33. Execution Never Under Estimate the Power Of Denial

34. Execution Be, and stay involved

35. Execution Do not work around the clock – You end up waking the following morning with the same ideas you had the day before..

36. Execution “ Brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough” (Randy Pauch)

37. Execution Work like you're a startup, design like you're Microsoft

38. Execution Use best-of-breed tools, do not reinvent the wheel

39. Execution Invest in proper framework, it pays for itself down the road

40. Execution Be dynamic, re-factor and rewrite!

41. Execution Think minimal

42. Execution Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

43. Execution Beware of minimal

44. Execution Study your competition and adjust your product in order to beat them in every aspect

45. Execution Talk to potential customers from day 1

46. Execution Technological crisis is part of the game. When overcoming it, it is called IP.

47. Execution Accept the fact that uncertainty, doubt and anxiety will dog you

48. BUSINESS PLAN & FINANCE 6

49. Finance & Business Plan Plan everything. Review it with a lot of people

50. Finance & Business Plan Before you refuse funding – think thrice

51. Finance & Business Plan Currency – Plan for the worst (Unimaginable but… 1 USD might worth less than 4 shekels one day!!)

52. Finance & Business Plan Always pay attention to the fuel gauge

53. LEGAL 7

54. Legal Think of the legal aspects of your startup – There are many illegal ways to make money (If you are interested talk to me after the presentation)

55. Legal Think of the legal aspects of your startup – There are many illegal ways to make money (If you are interested talk to me after the presentation)

56. INSIGHTS 8

57. General Startup Insight Startup has no memory

58. General Startup Insight Startup valuation is fluid

59. General Startup Insight Find your gurus (I am available)

60. General Startup Insight Beware of name droppers

61. Last Slide…. Take it easy! Hysteria makes you act stupid

62. Thanks!