Read What Facebook’s Sandberg Calls Maybe ‘The Most important Document Ever To Come Out Of The Valley’ Facebook’s No. 2 top dog, COO Sheryl Sandberg, recently said that Netflix’s company culture document “may well be the most important document ever to come out of the Valley.”
The document, a bullet-point-happy PowerPoint, has become a cultural manifesto for the Internet’s economic epicenter, amassing over 3.2 million views on Slideshare.net. More than simply a management guide, it’s a window into a philosophy that thrives on uncertainty, creativity, and trust — a blinding contrast to the hierarchical culture that dominated much of the 20th century workplace. To the extent that innovation and the Internet play a role in the modern workplace, it is a crystal ball into the future of daily life. We’ve summarized the most telling principles below: Creativity is Most Important In procedural work, the best are 2x better than the average. The technology industry, especially, is haunted by the ever-present fear of obsolescence. Prioritize Discovery Over Job Security Unlimited Vacation.
How GitHub Works. Stop producing shit. A friend of mine is starting what can only be described as a combination of Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn and Foursquare.
He’s super excited and hasn’t talked to any potential customers yet. Mad Libs For Pitches: How To Perfect The One Sentence Pitch. You’re the founder of a fledgling startup locked in a room with angel investor Ron Conway for exactly 30 seconds, what do you say?
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you fumble for the words to succinctly describe your startup in a sentence or two. That seems simple enough, what could go wrong in under a minute? According to the Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi: a lot. When it comes to the one sentence pitch, Ressi says “Most entrepreneurs manage to screw it up… How much better would the world be if every startup could explain their business well in one sentence?” First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop Fucking Around.
Editor’s note: Paul Stamatiou is Co-founder of Picplum, a Y Combinator-backed photo printing service, where he obsesses over both design and development.
He also co-founded Notifo (YC W10) and Skribit. Follow him on his blog, PaulStamatiou.com, and on Twitter: @Stammy. Reminisce with me for a bit. Do you remember the first time you got an Internet connection? Before your computer was always connected and when going online was a thing you had to plan. 15 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting My First Company. 12 Rules For Building Your First Profitable Startup. I’ve been obsessed with Internet Startups for almost a decade now, and I still find myself consuming as much content as possible about the best way to startup a company that is setup for success.
As luck would have it, I am actually running a profitable startup now, so I figured I would assemble a set of rules I wish someone had given me when I was trying to start my first few companies. Now, I know for every rule in this list, you can name exceptions. I get that. And I don’t care. This list is for someone looking to start their first Internet Startup who is interested in bootstrapping a reliably profitable company that can then open the door to the next big project. That’s my plan; I am running a profitable company, and I plan to use it and the experiences and capital I am getting from it to slingshot myself into the next, probably riskier project.
I firmly believe first time startup founders shouldn’t be trying to build the next Reddit or Facebook. Startup Lifecycle. Starting and Launching a company. Patrick Robin: Ne dites pas à ma mère que j'étais un entrepreneur de gauche. ...elle croit que je suis devenu un salaud de riche.
Patrick Robin PS: Nous aurions été des milliers d'entrepreneurs à pouvoir écrire ces quelques lignes. Patrick Robin : "Nous, entrepreneurs vilipendés " Moi, entrepreneur, j'ai mis 2 ans à oser me verser mon premier salaire.
Moi, entrepreneur, j'ai épuisé mes maigres économies pour investir dans mon premier projet. Moi, entrepreneur, durant plusieurs années j'étais le moins bien payé de mon entreprise. Dollar Shave Club Launches Razor Subscription Service, Raises $1M From Kleiner (And Others) There are few things in my life that seem less exciting than razors, but a new startup called The Dollar Shave Club thinks it’s time for a little disruption.
And some of the big names in the venture world, including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Andreessen Horowitz, are backing its vision. Dollar Shave Club was first founded in April 2011 by Michael Dubin and Mark Levine, and it’s relaunching today and announcing that it’s the latest company to emerge from Science, Inc., the incubator whose partners include former MySpace CEO Mike Jones and Color co-founder Peter Pham.
The basic model is simple — at pricing that starts at $1 per month (plus $2 for shipping and handling), customers get a monthly shipment of razors delivered to their home.