A Thought For Friday

You can only eat today's daily bread.

- Dale Carnegie

MIT Startup Bootcamp 2012 - What I Learned

I got wind of the MIT Startup Bootcamp from a former colleague and young entrepreneur. He ended up not being able to make it, so I went for both of us and promised to take notes:

My takeaways from Jeff Seibert of Crashlytics:

• Balance your team
• Distribution is king
• People don't have the time to discover things
• Follow the market where you are creating the most value
• Investors fund upward curves
• Maximize first-time experiences
• Find the medium(s) for the maximum effect for your vision

From Jennifer Lum of Adelphi Mobile:

• People and relationships really matter
• Speed matters
• Mentors
• We all dream of becoming grown-ups who make a difference
• You have nothing to lose

From Brett Van Zuiden of Filepicker.io:

• Start and don't stop
• Be prepared to absolutely dedicate at least 7-10 years of your life to your startup
• Keeping going, keep going, keep making things happen
• Tell people you're doing a startup and get feedback early
• Cut your safety net
• Make long-term commitments
• Really get to know your customers, and use that empathy to help motivate you forward
• Love your team
• Start a business ONLY if you are passionate about a vision and building a company is the only way to bring that vision to life

From Lee Hower of LinkedIn:

• What you do must be interesting to the market
• Founding teams tend to have people who know and trust each other and have a common framework
• Be exceptional

From Christine Corbett of Circle of 6

• Women rock
• Diversity of founders in entrepreneurship is crucial
• Solve simple problems first, to build your entrepreneurial muscles to solve big problems
• Every startup is a vote for the future
• Master tools to help you solve your problems

We Are...

More raw sermon notes from the iPhone:

Sermon 01apr12: Love finds a way.

We are here to make a difference 
We are to preserve and season
There's constant pressure to not realize who  God ordained you to
We are the light in a darkened world