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

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/

Stanley TangguestWalker WilliamsguestJustin Kanguest

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EPISODE INFO

Released: October 16, 2014
Duration: 52m
Channel: YC Root Access
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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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