One size does not fits all since all the companies and their businesses are different. But that does not mean there are tested practices going well with most ca

One size does not fits all since all the companies and their businesses are different. But that does not mean there are tested practices going well with most cases. Take, for example, the required reading from 1st lesson, Do things that don't scale [1]. And I know Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia didn't feel like they were en route to the big time as they were taking "professional" photos of their first hosts' apartments. They were just trying to survive. But in retrospect that too was the optimal path to dominating a big market. I remember reading somewhere that PG advised the photo thing to AirBnB, I might be wrong, to see if better photos is good for business (it appears it is). Now we have the same advice though a required reading link in the lesson. This does not mean your startup may benefit from such actions that don't scale but it's a good advice nevertheless. And being a long time lurker on HN, I'm sure I have heard most of the advice here and there but it's great for me to get them at home from thousand of kilometers away in a totally different country. [1] http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://paulgraham.com/ds.html