14 lists about #startups

the rules behind Amazon's six-page memo

• 01no PowerPoint, ever
• 02six pages, narrative prose
• 03study hall: 20 to 30 minutes of silent reading
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the 10 slides in sequoia's pitch deck template

• 01Company Purpose
• 02Problem
• 03Solution
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google's 10 things, the original list

• 011. focus on the user and all else will follow
• 022. it's best to do one thing really, really well
• 033. fast is better than slow
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Satya Nadella's book recommendations, sourced

• 01Mindset - Carol Dweck
• 02Nonviolent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg
• 03Deep Learning - Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
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key ideas in paul graham's how to do great work

• 01curiosity chooses the field, not passion
• 02learn until you hit the edge of what's known
• 03notice the gaps everyone stepped over
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yc's essential startup advice, broken into points

• 01launch now, iterate after
• 02do things that don't scale
• 03find the 90/10 solution
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yc startup school, in the order they teach it

• 01Module 1: deciding to start a startup
• 02Module 2: getting and evaluating startup ideas
• 03Module 3: building your founding team
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the 8 values in Netflix's culture memo right now

the Joel test (2000)

• 01Do you use source control?
• 02Can you make a build in one step?
• 03Do you make daily builds?
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Richard Hamming's You and Your Research, the main points

• 01luck favors the prepared mind
• 02courage
• 03work on important problems
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Peter Thiel's recommended books, sourced one by one

• 01Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Rene Girard↗
• 02The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
• 03Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
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amazon's 16 leadership principles

• 01Customer Obsession
• 02Ownership
• 03Invent and Simplify
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