Thoughts on scaling when it’s too early!

The entrepreneurial landscape has changed significantly over the past decade with more and more people starting companies all around the world as the complexity of doing so has reduced drastically. When building a company in such an environment, you face…

CS183C has changed how I do things

I still remember tinkering with my first idea. Senior year of high school. First learning what a startup was. What technology companies did. Realizing that Google wasn’t just a verb in the dictionary and a website online, but actually a massive corporation based in…

Things Investors Believe

When VCs teach you how to do a startup, you learn a fascinatingly skewed perspective on the business world. In the first two weeks of CS183C at Stanford, we’ve heard from some of the best in the business: two partners at Greylock, a founding partner of Floodgate Ventures, the founder…

The Key To Early Stage Startup Success: Know What Not To Focus On

It’s been over 10 years since I took my last college course. While most were swimming in the ocean and drowning in debt, I decided to dive head first into the world of entrepreneurship by opening a sandwich shop in…

Cs183c Essay Assignment #1

Write about the principles of blitzscaling at the Family stage that:
a) resonated the most with you and
b) surprised you.

A)