Lecture 4 - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung)

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 2, 2014

Duration

52m

Channel

YC Root Access

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Adora-cheung-lecture-4-building-product-talking-to-users-and-growing-annotated So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users?Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec04/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64033 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Adora Cheung

  host

  YC partner and co-founder of Homejoy, speaking on product, user interviews, and growth.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Adora Cheung, Lecture 4 - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing (Adora Cheung) explores Adora Cheung’s playbook for building, learning, and scaling early startups Cheung argues founders should start by precisely defining a one-sentence problem, ensuring it’s a problem they personally understand and care about, and validating it through real conversations before writing code.

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