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My favorite talk was the one given by Jessica Livingston. The way she simplified what it takes to be a good entrepreneur, resiliency and drive and the "monster

My favorite talk was the one given by Jessica Livingston. The way she simplified what it takes to be a good entrepreneur, resiliency and drive and the "monsters" you'll meet along the way was amazing. My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber... A special award to Ben Horowitz for humor and to Robert Scoble who managed to speak (ask a question to Ron) even though he wasn't on the speakers's list :)

zmitri 14y ago
I totally agree. Her talk was by far the most practical, and provided serious actionable advice. I really liked it! I also agree that Travis was probably the only one who didn't give much insight or advice into entrepreneurship, which was unfortunate. I tried to summarize most of them here if you don't want to watch video http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012 http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012 PS. Scoble tried to ask Ron if he would still invest in Highlight
wilfra 14y ago
"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber" That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites. I still don't get it.
- tcc619 14y ago
  I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some things to beat the competition. I think Uber's core is operational efficiency. They keep metrics on everything, they predict where riders are being underserved, not just where they are. I posted some more of my notes on http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summary-my-takeaways-and-interpretations/ http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summa...
wia 14y ago
JL efficiently didn't delve into #1 monster of cofounder disagreements. An insightful point was about the large company corp dev monster. Another must watch is Joel's talk: deciding and knowing what kind of venture one is in, so that one takes the more appropriate actions when situations arise.
- manaskarekar 14y ago
  Here's the article Joel's talk was based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html Reading it should give you a good overall picture of his talk.

zmitri 14y ago

I totally agree. Her talk was by far the most practical, and provided serious actionable advice. I really liked it! I also agree that Travis was probably the only one who didn't give much insight or advice into entrepreneurship, which was unfortunate. I tried to summarize most of them here if you don't want to watch video http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012 http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012 PS. Scoble tried to ask Ron if he would still invest in Highlight

wilfra 14y ago

"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber" That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites. I still don't get it.

tcc619 14y ago
I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some things to beat the competition. I think Uber's core is operational efficiency. They keep metrics on everything, they predict where riders are being underserved, not just where they are. I posted some more of my notes on http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summary-my-takeaways-and-interpretations/ http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summa...

wia 14y ago

JL efficiently didn't delve into #1 monster of cofounder disagreements. An insightful point was about the large company corp dev monster. Another must watch is Joel's talk: deciding and knowing what kind of venture one is in, so that one takes the more appropriate actions when situations arise.

manaskarekar 14y ago
Here's the article Joel's talk was based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html Reading it should give you a good overall picture of his talk.