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My favorite talk was the one given by Jessica Livingston. The way she simplified what it takes to be a good entrepreneur, resiliency and drive and the "monsters" you'll meet along the way was amazing. My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber... A special award to Ben Horowitz for humor and to Robert Scoble who managed to speak (ask a question to Ron) even though he wasn't on the speakers's list :)

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I totally agree. Her talk was by far the most practical, and provided serious actionable advice. I really liked it!

I also agree that Travis was probably the only one who didn't give much insight or advice into entrepreneurship, which was unfortunate.

I tried to summarize most of them here if you don't want to watch video http://www.backspac.es/tag/sus2012

PS. Scoble tried to ask Ron if he would still invest in Highlight

JL efficiently didn't delve into #1 monster of cofounder disagreements. An insightful point was about the large company corp dev monster.

Another must watch is Joel's talk: deciding and knowing what kind of venture one is in, so that one takes the more appropriate actions when situations arise.

Here's the article Joel's talk was based on http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

Reading it should give you a good overall picture of his talk.

"My least favorite moment was Uber's founder talk. I love and use the app but his talk sounded too much like 30 minutes comercial on Uber"

That was what I thought at the time as well. Lots of people have said his was one of their favorites. I still don't get it.

I thought Travis from Uber had a great talk because he showed the operations of his business. Zuck mentioned that companies can 80/20 somethings but have to be the best at some things to beat the competition. I think Uber's core is operational efficiency. They keep metrics on everything, they predict where riders are being underserved, not just where they are. I posted some more of my notes on http://tommy.chheng.com/2012/10/24/startup-school-2012-summa...

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