Highlights from Startup School NYC 2014

- Zach Sims quoting his classmates' saying something like "you should be embarrassed by your first version, but you shouldn't be THIS embarrassed."

- The Instacart story was very inspiring. I've heard it before (the pictures, the late app, etc.), but always a lot of fun. The part about him refusing to food shop until he could do it from his own app is exactly the sort of dogfooding I do and recommend.

- The repeated invocations to build for yourself.

I especially appreciated Shana Fisher's contrarian advice:

- don't be afraid to perfect & build a minimum "desirable" product

- get each hire right before moving on to the next

- sometimes it is best to be a single founder if you have a certain personality

My take-away... A lot of the things they've mentioned was stuff I already heard/known. That said, it was great to hear them again and again.

I really like the cadence of 1) "No excuses. Just Do It!" 2) "No one knows what they're doing and that's fine" 3) "The Net is truly a level playing field"

Anyway, those are my little tidbits. Back to coding!

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