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paul graham is talking now. This is the first time i hear him talk. He’s reading off the notes he prepared and it feels like he’s reading a power point. Right now, he’s talking about “Release Early” following up with “release often”

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Ann winblad from hummer-winblad came up. It was clear from the get-go that she was very comfortable presenting to large crowds, she started with jokes about her height (she seemed short). Her talk was packed with info and she moved very fast skimming all the slides. It was hard to take notes, but great talk
How […]

Lessons learned birthing & building web startups.
Founder of ONElist and BlogLines.
ONELIST sold out to egroups which later sold out to yahoo.
Bloglines
— 200,000$
— one salaried employee
— 4 employees working for stock
— acquired by ask
Garage Philosophy
- passion for idea
- Focus on solving a need you have rather […]

Page Mailliard from WSGR (Wilson Sonsini et. al) came up next. The big screen had issues and she was bit shaky in the start (stage fright?), but the talk became lively very quickly.
Here is the summary:
- Do it right the first time
- Don’t use other lawyers :p
- WSGR will give you […]

Notes from joe krause preso:
Joe Kraus
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1) Test your business plan early
2) Like olympic trials. Every success leads to a tougher round. Keep enjoying success. Stakes raised every victory.
But important to celebrate and keep motivating
3) Differences between 1996 and 2006
- Easier to start a company, but same difficulty to start a business
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Today is startupschool! When i applied to startup school initially, i wasn’t really sure if i’d have my ideas developed this far along by end of april. But, i am in the thick of developing the ideas into a company and i got accepted to startupschool. In fact, i totally forgot about startup school and […]

Dave Shen (dshen) is blogging. Dave was the first designer at yahoo! creating the original yahoo! logos, look and feel, the jumping y! guy. He was *the* leader for UED for a long time before moving on couple of years back. Not that he needs my endorsement, but he is an extremely innovative, forward thinking, […]