{"id":1010,"date":"2014-11-16T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T19:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2014-11-14T01:28:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T19:58:18","slug":"how-to-start-a-startup-note-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Startup note #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-908\" src=\"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/startup-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"startup\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/startup-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/startup-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Moving on to <a href=\"http:\/\/startupclass.samaltman.com\/%20\" target=\"_blank\">how to startup<\/a> series class, I spent time watching\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/startupclass.samaltman.com\/courses\/lec13\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reidhoffman\" target=\"_blank\">Reid Hoffman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dQ7ZvO5DpIw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My notes for his class:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Network network <span id=\"bd05591c-44a2-416b-adb6-0d4cc3143b7e\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">network<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other.<\/li>\n<li>Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes more sense in Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li>Go talk to smart people and listen to their suggestions on your idea.<\/li>\n<li>You have to be both flexible and persistent.<\/li>\n<li>You have to be both confident as well as cautious.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to feedback, criticism<\/li>\n<li>Data as well as vision are important for your product.<\/li>\n<li>Be smart &amp; take intelligent, focussed risk.<\/li>\n<li>Solve short term vision immediately, but do keep <span id=\"3beb45b0-79a7-46d6-8cd2-66f756bab91b\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"8e97d489-d818-4b68-845b-7212a5bd8af6\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">eye<\/span><\/span> on your long term vision.<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"a77c10cb-318e-44dc-a356-c6b4f88ad9f3\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\"><span id=\"583a4bda-9bbc-4477-9337-b855cdd1efe8\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Product<\/span><\/span> needs to go out in the market ASAP its ready, product distribution is key.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching\u00a0Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder\u00a0by\u00a0Reid Hoffman &nbsp; My notes for his class: Network network network. VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other. Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/16\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Start a Startup note #4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,121,101],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}