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Startup School Doodle Notes 2014

135 points by gkoberger 12y ago

IanMikutel 12y ago
Absolutely love these. Bought the physical printed book version last year and keep it on my desk for inspiration whenever I'm working on something and feel like the world is working against me. Will there be printed versions of this year's book?
- gkoberger 12y ago
  Probably not – last year, I only did it because I was inspired by Watsi's talk and wanted to try to give back somewhow. But it was a logistical nightmare; it's really hard to get small runs of high quality book printing done for a reasonable cost.
  - levlandau 12y ago
    startup idea? :)
Pxl_Buzzard 12y ago
Thank you for putting the book / website up on Github[1]. I would love to see more notes shared using the template you've provided. 1. https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes
genericone 12y ago
Hate to be that guy (pedantic), but this stuck out like a sore thumb: 'Distill your values ... "Collabtoration" ... '
- gkoberger 12y ago
  Thanks! Will fix :) EDIT: fixed!
nodesocket 12y ago
Gregory, you've done it yet again. Amazing work. Thanks.
tptacek 12y ago
These notes are extremely well done. Thanks. Starting a company is not the hardest thing you can do. It's not even close. Nor should your company be your religion. If you think it should, reread David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College speech.
- gkoberger 12y ago
  Thanks Thomas. I'll keep doing these sketch notes because they're valuable to me, however one of the negatives is that it rewards speakers who use hyperbole and one-liners. I also mean these to be a companion; everyone should watch the videos.
  - mikeleeorg 12y ago
    Fantastic job with these! And I would be totally okay with you paraphrasing some of the speakers to summarize their key points in a short blurb and illustration. I realize this more work for you, and perhaps some possible misinterpretations, but I think the value would be higher than any unintended consequences. In any case, thank you for creating these!
willaone 12y ago
This is fantastic. Great work. Random question: Is there an app/software you used to do these doodles? I'd love to do something similar but I'm not as artistically gifted. Thanks!
- gkoberger 12y ago
  Previous years, I used pen and paper and scanned them. This year, I used a combination of things: Paper (by 53), actual pen and paper, and Photoshop. I'd recommend checking out Paper by 53; it's hard to not make something beautiful using it.
- wmorein 12y ago
  I work for FiftyThree. As Gregory mentioned, he used Paper for part of these. If you are interested in trying it out, I recommend this video put together by Brad Ovenell-Carter - he does a great job of giving tips even if you aren't artistic: http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/sketchnote-primer/ http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/sketchnote-prime...
purans 12y ago
Good one! startup school was awesome this year! great talks and learnings!
FakeChrisDrayer 12y ago
Very nice. From the outside, its fabulous to get a better picture of the scope of startup school. TY.
srcmap 12y ago
The page shows up incorrectly in ipad for me. anyone else have the same issue?
taybin 12y ago
Hang in there, Kitty! Nice formatting.
zzleeper 12y ago
Is the what's up thing correct? When you have the numbers of people WhatsApp has, you can't remove features (b/c 0.1% = millions of people) I recall WA made many efforts to support multiple platforms, etc. but not sure how far to take this comment.. (i.e. Facebook does it, Google does it, etc)
- gkoberger 12y ago
  They do remove features, they just have to think long and hard about it. He even mentioned a few features they're thinking of removing (such as the broadcast feature).
JulianReid 12y ago
What a brilliant lot of notes, insightful inspiring and nice to see some great minds feel a lot like we all do at times. I got a lot out of that cheers.
kamikazi 12y ago
I came across this only today and just want to say it's excellent. Beautifully done. Thanks for putting it out.

135 points by gkoberger 12y ago

Absolutely love these. Bought the physical printed book version last year and keep it on my desk for inspiration whenever I'm working on something and feel like the world is working against me. Will there be printed versions of this year's book?

gkoberger 12y ago
Probably not – last year, I only did it because I was inspired by Watsi's talk and wanted to try to give back somewhow. But it was a logistical nightmare; it's really hard to get small runs of high quality book printing done for a reasonable cost.
- levlandau 12y ago
  startup idea? :)

Pxl_Buzzard 12y ago

Thank you for putting the book / website up on Github[1]. I would love to see more notes shared using the template you've provided. 1. https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes

genericone 12y ago

Hate to be that guy (pedantic), but this stuck out like a sore thumb: 'Distill your values ... "Collabtoration" ... '

gkoberger 12y ago
Thanks! Will fix :) EDIT: fixed!

nodesocket 12y ago

Gregory, you've done it yet again. Amazing work. Thanks.

tptacek 12y ago

These notes are extremely well done. Thanks. Starting a company is not the hardest thing you can do. It's not even close. Nor should your company be your religion. If you think it should, reread David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College speech.

gkoberger 12y ago
Thanks Thomas. I'll keep doing these sketch notes because they're valuable to me, however one of the negatives is that it rewards speakers who use hyperbole and one-liners. I also mean these to be a companion; everyone should watch the videos.
- mikeleeorg 12y ago
  Fantastic job with these! And I would be totally okay with you paraphrasing some of the speakers to summarize their key points in a short blurb and illustration. I realize this more work for you, and perhaps some possible misinterpretations, but I think the value would be higher than any unintended consequences. In any case, thank you for creating these!

willaone 12y ago

This is fantastic. Great work. Random question: Is there an app/software you used to do these doodles? I'd love to do something similar but I'm not as artistically gifted. Thanks!

gkoberger 12y ago
Previous years, I used pen and paper and scanned them. This year, I used a combination of things: Paper (by 53), actual pen and paper, and Photoshop. I'd recommend checking out Paper by 53; it's hard to not make something beautiful using it.
wmorein 12y ago
I work for FiftyThree. As Gregory mentioned, he used Paper for part of these. If you are interested in trying it out, I recommend this video put together by Brad Ovenell-Carter - he does a great job of giving tips even if you aren't artistic: http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/sketchnote-primer/ http://www.ovenell-carter.com/uncategorized/sketchnote-prime...

purans 12y ago

Good one! startup school was awesome this year! great talks and learnings!

FakeChrisDrayer 12y ago

Very nice. From the outside, its fabulous to get a better picture of the scope of startup school. TY.

srcmap 12y ago

The page shows up incorrectly in ipad for me. anyone else have the same issue?

taybin 12y ago

Hang in there, Kitty! Nice formatting.

zzleeper 12y ago

Is the what's up thing correct? When you have the numbers of people WhatsApp has, you can't remove features (b/c 0.1% = millions of people) I recall WA made many efforts to support multiple platforms, etc. but not sure how far to take this comment.. (i.e. Facebook does it, Google does it, etc)

gkoberger 12y ago
They do remove features, they just have to think long and hard about it. He even mentioned a few features they're thinking of removing (such as the broadcast feature).

JulianReid 12y ago

What a brilliant lot of notes, insightful inspiring and nice to see some great minds feel a lot like we all do at times. I got a lot out of that cheers.

kamikazi 12y ago

I came across this only today and just want to say it's excellent. Beautifully done. Thanks for putting it out.