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Can you guys recommend any of these? I found DHH's talk to be very good.

tlrobinson 19y ago
I recommend ALL of them. Seriously. You could skip certain ones if you're not interested in the topic, but i enjoyed each one.
abstractbill 19y ago
I liked Norvig's talk a lot, though I got the impression it may have been too technical for some people that late in the day. Both Pauls gave really excellent talks too.
bdr 19y ago
My other favorites were Paul Buchheit and Peter Norvig, but it depends what you like. Here are my summaries: David Lawee: Launch quickly! Google buys technology and people. Sam Altman: How and when to get funding for your startup. Easy and detailed explanations. Jack Sheridan: There are four important legal areas to consider for your startup: Who owns the company? Who owns the tech? Who controls the company? Who gets what in case of liquidity? Analysis of each of these. Paul Graham: like the "Be Good" essay, but much more fun in-person Greg McAdoo: What Sequoia looks for: big total market, company that defines a new category, rapid iteration, accumulated advantage. DHH: "Step 2: Price!" In the context of the prior two talks, this one was explosive. Aggressively stated position that differs from the implicit philosophy of the rest of startup school, and a certain Web 2.0 scene in general. Paul Buchheit: Inspirational. Leave your job if you feel drained. Left Intel for Google. Then left Google. What if Woz had stayed at HP? Jeff Bezos: AWS is great! It's scales up and down elastically! Arrington: "I genuinely look up to entrepeneurs." Roosevelt "man in the arena" quote. Engage in dialog with people who criticize you. Marc Andreessen: Read "The Black Swan". High-level philosophy. Experiences in the first bubble. How to avoid mediocrity in growing your company. Peter Norvig: Nerdy math/algorithms fun. "It's more agile to work with data than code."
neilc 19y ago
The only talk I thought was mediocre was the legal one (good advice, but everything I got out of it could have been reduced to a few bullet points). Every other talk was fantastic.

I recommend ALL of them. Seriously. You could skip certain ones if you're not interested in the topic, but i enjoyed each one.

abstractbill 19y ago

I liked Norvig's talk a lot, though I got the impression it may have been too technical for some people that late in the day. Both Pauls gave really excellent talks too.

bdr 19y ago

My other favorites were Paul Buchheit and Peter Norvig, but it depends what you like. Here are my summaries: David Lawee: Launch quickly! Google buys technology and people. Sam Altman: How and when to get funding for your startup. Easy and detailed explanations. Jack Sheridan: There are four important legal areas to consider for your startup: Who owns the company? Who owns the tech? Who controls the company? Who gets what in case of liquidity? Analysis of each of these. Paul Graham: like the "Be Good" essay, but much more fun in-person Greg McAdoo: What Sequoia looks for: big total market, company that defines a new category, rapid iteration, accumulated advantage. DHH: "Step 2: Price!" In the context of the prior two talks, this one was explosive. Aggressively stated position that differs from the implicit philosophy of the rest of startup school, and a certain Web 2.0 scene in general. Paul Buchheit: Inspirational. Leave your job if you feel drained. Left Intel for Google. Then left Google. What if Woz had stayed at HP? Jeff Bezos: AWS is great! It's scales up and down elastically! Arrington: "I genuinely look up to entrepeneurs." Roosevelt "man in the arena" quote. Engage in dialog with people who criticize you. Marc Andreessen: Read "The Black Swan". High-level philosophy. Experiences in the first bubble. How to avoid mediocrity in growing your company. Peter Norvig: Nerdy math/algorithms fun. "It's more agile to work with data than code."

neilc 19y ago

The only talk I thought was mediocre was the legal one (good advice, but everything I got out of it could have been reduced to a few bullet points). Every other talk was fantastic.