{"id":903,"date":"2014-10-10T23:53:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=903"},"modified":"2014-10-10T23:53:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:23:39","slug":"how-to-start-a-startup-note-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-1\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Startup note #1"},"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>I know everyone is watching, reading, following <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\" target=\"_blank\">@sama<\/a> course how to start a startup. I am keeping this notes for myself, if it helps someone else good karma gets added on me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Lecture 1: Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CBYhVcO4WgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>My notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t build a startup for money, join a startup at early stage &amp; get rewarded.<\/li>\n<li>Most successful startups came out fixing real world problems ex- airbnb, uber.<\/li>\n<li>Idea comes first &amp; startup second.<\/li>\n<li>If you have too many ideas pick one of them &amp; give your best to it.<\/li>\n<li>Get into mission oriented ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Build a product, company next, PR\/Press\/VC will follow next.<\/li>\n<li>Get a small group of users who love your product rather than 1000 others who just likes it.<\/li>\n<li>At early stage spend most on word to mouth, get referenceable\u00a0customers.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about competitors &amp; all the buzz they are getting around press\/VC other circuits.<\/li>\n<li>Go for a smaller, unique market, find a problem solve it &amp; become the market leader. The growth rate will be much higher.<\/li>\n<li>Do not copy an existing idea unless you have some value add on it &amp; will address a specific problem which was missed out on initial product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know everyone is watching, reading, following @sama course how to start a startup. I am keeping this notes for myself, if it helps someone else good karma gets added on me. \ud83d\ude42 Lecture 1: Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I My notes: Don&#8217;t build a startup for money, join a startup &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/10\/how-to-start-a-startup-note-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Start a Startup note #1&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}