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How I Got To Startup School

17 points by dshah 19y ago

aneesh 19y ago
It's nice to see that random acts of kindness still have a place in this world.
aaroneous 19y ago
That's great, congratulations :] BTW, your blog totally breaks in Safari... might wanna take a look at that.
- philcrissman 19y ago
  Urg. Yes, that happened before (Safari breakage), I had thought it was fixed. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to take another look.
  - pmjordan 19y ago
    Opera (9.27, Linux) too.
RyanGWU82 19y ago
By the way, thanks to both Dharmesh and Phil for offering to provide us with notes. I think it's wonderful that you're putting in the time and money to create a comprehensive recap.
astine 19y ago
Cool! I hope it works out.
SwellJoe 19y ago
My estimation of the business acumen of Dharmesh just went through the roof. $300 bucks for a series of articles that's guaranteed to get good traffic is a great deal. Smack a touching story of "one guy's struggle to get to Startup School to help him follow his dream of being an entrepreneur" on top, and you've got a blogging goldmine. OK, maybe just an interesting series of articles, but still a good deal. I saw someone suggest this very idea in a thread here...but it didn't click that it'd be a brilliant marketing move for whoever picked up the (paltry) tab.
- dshah 19y ago
  I'm not sure whether I should take this as a compliment or not. :) In any case, I think it is more a testament to my laziness than it is my business acumen. I haven't been posting to the blog much lately, and thought this would be a good way to get some insights that I'm sure to be good and my readers will get value out of.
  - SwellJoe 19y ago
    Of course it's a compliment! I suppose if you wanted to worry over whether I'm interpreting your philanthropic effort as a cynical marketing ploy, then you could take it as something other than a compliment...but that's not my intent at all. I think it's both good business sense and a nice thing to do. "Laziness" is a virtue when used appropriately. I really need to work on my laziness maximization skills...
wallflower 19y ago
Phil if you read this - Thanks! I decided not to apply to Startup School and this makes me feel better. The more interesting posts will be your post-Startup School ones [one, two, three months afterwards]. I really hope you are inspired and start a thread on your blog on how you are doing/doing it, post-startup school. Followup is everything.

17 points by dshah 19y ago

aneesh 19y ago

It's nice to see that random acts of kindness still have a place in this world.

aaroneous 19y ago

That's great, congratulations :] BTW, your blog totally breaks in Safari... might wanna take a look at that.

philcrissman 19y ago
Urg. Yes, that happened before (Safari breakage), I had thought it was fixed. Thanks for the tip, I'll have to take another look.
- pmjordan 19y ago
  Opera (9.27, Linux) too.

RyanGWU82 19y ago

By the way, thanks to both Dharmesh and Phil for offering to provide us with notes. I think it's wonderful that you're putting in the time and money to create a comprehensive recap.

astine 19y ago

Cool! I hope it works out.

SwellJoe 19y ago

My estimation of the business acumen of Dharmesh just went through the roof. $300 bucks for a series of articles that's guaranteed to get good traffic is a great deal. Smack a touching story of "one guy's struggle to get to Startup School to help him follow his dream of being an entrepreneur" on top, and you've got a blogging goldmine. OK, maybe just an interesting series of articles, but still a good deal. I saw someone suggest this very idea in a thread here...but it didn't click that it'd be a brilliant marketing move for whoever picked up the (paltry) tab.

dshah 19y ago
I'm not sure whether I should take this as a compliment or not. :) In any case, I think it is more a testament to my laziness than it is my business acumen. I haven't been posting to the blog much lately, and thought this would be a good way to get some insights that I'm sure to be good and my readers will get value out of.
- SwellJoe 19y ago
  Of course it's a compliment! I suppose if you wanted to worry over whether I'm interpreting your philanthropic effort as a cynical marketing ploy, then you could take it as something other than a compliment...but that's not my intent at all. I think it's both good business sense and a nice thing to do. "Laziness" is a virtue when used appropriately. I really need to work on my laziness maximization skills...

wallflower 19y ago

Phil if you read this - Thanks! I decided not to apply to Startup School and this makes me feel better. The more interesting posts will be your post-Startup School ones [one, two, three months afterwards]. I really hope you are inspired and start a thread on your blog on how you are doing/doing it, post-startup school. Followup is everything.