This document discusses lessons learned from 4 startups and provides advice for entrepreneurs. It recommends expecting the unexpected when starting a business after college. Two key lessons are that expertise helps establish credibility and the best money comes from customers rather than funding. Whether building products or services, the other is often discovered. Fun is as important as making money. Starting a business accelerates learning, makes you a generalist and specialist, and focus on what matters. It poses many questions for entrepreneurs to consider regarding their business ideas and models.

1. A Few Lessons from 4 StartupsDoraiThodlaTwitter: doraitdorait@gmail.com

2. When You Step Out Of College

3. Expect the Unexpected

4. Innovate Interactions

5. Experiment with Ideas

6. Some Reflections On What Helped

7. Expertise helpsEstablish Credibility

8. The Best MoneyComes from Customers

9. When You Build ProductsYou Get Service Business

10. When You Build ServicesYou Get Product Ideas

11. Fun Is As ImportantAs Making Money

12. What a Startup Does To You

13. Accelerates Learning

14. Makes YouT-Shaped

15. Makes You Work OnStuff That Matters

16. Questions! Questions!Funded or Bootstrapped?

17. Local or Global?

18. Products or Services?