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How to Create an App Without a Technical Co-Founder – Hustle Con 2015
How to Create an App Without a Technical Co-Founder – Hustle Con 2015
In this Hustle Con talk, Arum Kang, the founder of Coffee Meets Bagel, explains how to build your first tech company without a technical co-founder.
Arum, along with her two sisters, is the founder of Coffee Meets Bagel, an immensely popular dating app. Prior to CMB, she worked at Avon Products and Amazon, leading efforts to understand consumer needs and behavior. She is a proud graduate of Harvard Business School.
CMB has $11m in funding and recently denied a $30m acquisition offer from Mark Cuban while on Shark Tank (kind of).
Odesk is a platform connect tech needs and tech workers
When to incorporate a business in the US: cost and expenses for startups
When to incorporate a business in the US: cost and expenses for startups
Startup Financial Model example: Slidebean (actual) earnings and expenses 📊
Startup Financial Model example: Slidebean (actual) earnings and expenses 📊
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Turning Products into Companies
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Turning Products into Companies
You’ve figured out your value prop, you’ve got a great product under development. Now what? How can you develop a roadmap to build a company? VCs often qualify deals as being a “feature” a “product” or a “company.” Which do you have and how will you get where you want to go? During this session we’ll discuss how to think about designing your product as a foundational element of your business. Think beyond UX and Architecture to Whole Product, Ecosystems, and Strategic partners. Formulate how to design your go to market strategy and business model into your product with a modular architecture, distinctive packaging and a frictionless approach.
Learn more about the Harvard Innovation Lab at http://i-lab.harvard.edu/ and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/innovationlab and like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/harvardinnov…
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Disruptive Business Models with Michael Skok 4 of 7
Harvard i-lab | Startup Secrets: Disruptive Business Models with Michael Skok 4 of 7
A disruptive business model is as powerful as a disruptive product or technology. Learn how innovators apply C.O.R.E differentiation, multipliers, and levers to disrupt the market. Find out about “SLIPPERY” products. Connect the dots between building a great product and creating a profitable enterprise.
Watch and Learn From This Startup’s Pitch to VC Tim Draper
Watch and Learn From This Startup’s Pitch to VC Tim Draper
It takes more than a fantastic idea, traction and a killer management team to grab the attention of high-powered VCs. Watch as tagMap, which produces a social-networking app that brings people together based on common interests, presents its idea to Tim Draper, the noted Silicon Valley VC and co-founder of venture firm DFJ, and decide for yourself if the company’s a worth-while investment.
Harvard i-lab | “Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital” with Jeff Bussgang
Harvard i-lab | “Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital” with Jeff Bussgang
Jeff Bussgang presented a Skillshare class entitled “Mastering the VC Game: How to Raise Your First Round of Capital” at the Harvard innovation lab on April 3, 2012. Jeff is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners.
Students learned about the startup financing landscape, how to find investors, how to pitch them, how to understand term sheets, and other tips for raising a first round of financing.
The seminar was intended to address questions like:
You’ve been working on a big idea and need financing to get it going: but how do you go about raising your first round of funding? What’s the difference between angel, seed, and VC investors? How do you go about valuing your company and deciding on equity?
David Rusenko – How To Find Product Market Fit
David Rusenko – How To Find Product Market Fit
David Rusenko details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today. Startup School is YC’s free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! https://www.startupschool.org/
How a Solo, Non-technical Founder Started an 80+ Person Startup – Hustle Con 2015
How a Solo, Non-technical Founder Started an 80+ Person Startup – Hustle Con 2015
Arram is the founder and CEO of ZeroCater. A true hustler, Arram took a low-level job at Justin.tv to gain experience. He created a spreadsheet to streamline the lunch-ordering process, quit his job, and started pitching with zero lines of code.
ZeroCater graduated from YC in 2011, raised $1.5m (their only funding), and bootstrapped their way to profitability and 100 employees.
Hustle Con is a badass conference where the best non-technical founders (aka hustlers) teach how they got started and give practical advice on growing your startup. If you’ve heard of a hacker, well a hustler is its counterpart. Basically, it’s like a rock n’ roll version of TED, except not as hoity-toity. The catch? None of our speakers know how to code.
Recorded at Hustle Con 4/24/2015 in San Francisco – http://www.hustlecon.com/
Produced by 845a – http://www.845a.com/