I have a huge archive of notes on entrepreneurship, engineering, programming patterns, psychology, branding, etc and I'd love to maximize their utility by sharing them with like-minded people instead of keeping them to myself. I'm new to HN though and don't know if this would be appropriate (especially if I'm sharing links to my off-site notes).
Here's an example:
Sam Altman - How to Succeed with a Startup
Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lJKucu6HJc
My Notes:
- The degree to which you're successful is the degree to which you build a product that is so good that people spontaneously tell their friends about it.
- We find out about great products from our friends.
- One litmus test here is to ask yourself, is your product easy to understand? Can it be explained in a simple sentence?
- If you can't explain what your product does in a sentence, it's a bad sign. People don't pitch their friends. People share cool stuff with their friends.
- You also need to be looking for a market that is starting to undergo or is soon to be undergoing exponential growth.
- One of the biggest mistakes that investors make when evaluating startups is to focus on the growth rate. Investors will forgive low revenue if there's rapid growth. For some reason, people don't think about markets this way. They should.
- Most successful startups start in small markets that are growing very quickly. You want to identify a market that's set to grow every year and then ride the elevator up.
- It's important to distinguish between real trends and fake trends. If your product is targeted at a real trend, then your early adopters will use it obsessively.
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Do you want to see this kind of content? If so, is it ok if I link to my off-site space to address formatting/length limitations here? What are you most interested in seeing distilled like this? I've done books, videos, documentaries, etc.
