{"id":1014,"date":"2014-11-20T01:32:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2014-11-14T01:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T20:28:55","slug":"how-to-start-a-startup-note-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-5\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Startup note #5"},"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>Today I spent listing to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulg\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Graham<\/a>\u00a0in the<a href=\"http:\/\/startupclass.samaltman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> how to start a startup series<\/a> lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full\u00a0of fun, honesty &amp; blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ii1jcLg-eIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My notes from his lecture:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Listen to your intuition<\/li>\n<li>Work with people whom you respect and have known long enough.<\/li>\n<li>Understand your user, make something people really want \u00a0&amp; that is how your startup will grow.<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"a3367cd1-a551-4446-a326-9e80d5b323ea\" class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\">Success<\/span> of your startup is not fundraising.<\/li>\n<li>Starting a startup during college is not a good idea.<\/li>\n<li>An idea &amp; co-founders is what college can provide.<\/li>\n<li>Domain expertise is what will give you an edge over others when you are building your product.<\/li>\n<li>If you work on things you like you don\u2019t have to force yourself 4 being efficient.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I spent listing to\u00a0Paul Graham\u00a0in the how to start a startup series lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full\u00a0of fun, honesty &amp; blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem. My notes from his lecture: Listen to your intuition Work with people whom you respect and have known long &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Start a Startup note #5&#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\/1014"}],"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=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}