Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

October 16, 2014

Duration

52m

Channel

YC Root Access

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/William-sydney-walker-lecture-8-doing-things-that-dont-scale-pr-and-how-to-get-started-annotated Lecture 8 features 3 speakers: Stanley Tang, Founder of Doordash, covers How to Get Started. Walker Williams, Founder of Teespring, covers Doing things that Don't Scale. Justin Kan, Founder of TwitchTV and Partner at Y Combinator, covers Press. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec09/ Discuss this lecture: https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64037 This video is under Creative Commons license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Stanley Tang

  guest

  Co-founder of DoorDash who talks through the company’s early launch and “do things that don’t scale” lessons.

• Walker Williams

  guest

  CEO and founder of Teespring, presenting on getting started and early validation.

• Justin Kan

  guest

  Y Combinator partner and founder of Justin.tv (Twitch) and Kiko, giving a talk on press/PR.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of YC Root Access, featuring Stanley Tang and Walker Williams, Lecture 8 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press explores founders share scrappy startup tactics plus tactical press playbook advice Stanley Tang explains how DoorDash started by interviewing local merchants, then testing delivery demand with a one-hour landing-page experiment and manual fulfillment.

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