This post explores my key takeaways from CS183C. I noticed several similarities chemical reactions…
I am taking CS183C (Technology enabled Blitzscaling) this quarter at Stanford. Prompt for this week: Write about how the principles of blitzscaling change as you achieve real scale (e.g. Village, City). Focus on things which: a) resonated the most with you and…
The transition of a startup from the “tribe” to “village/city” stage creates an imminent need for the founder to grow into the role of a leader. This essay focuses on all aspects of this transition that I find intriguing and how they relate to the principles of…
Applying the principles of blitzscaling to your company as you hire your very first set of employees, get more users and transition into the “tribe” stage.
Read the first part of this essay here.
They say that if you don’t know if you have product-market fit, you don’t have it. Once you know you have it, however, the question at hand becomes “when and how quickly do we scale?”
Over the last four years, I’ve interviewed at a lot of companies. They range from companies consisting of just the founders with only an idea, to well established public companies with tens of thousands of employees. Of them all, TellApart had the most astounding…
I am taking CS183C this quarter at Stanford. This class focuses on the idea of Blitzscaling (rapid scaling once a startup finds a reasonable product-market fit). It is a sequel to CS183 taught by Peter Thiel and CS183B Sam Altman in previous years.
(This essay was part of class submission. It has been republished on Medium for a wider audience on 10/19/2015)
I am taking CS183C this quarter at Stanford. This class focuses on the idea of Blitzscaling (rapid…
Mariam Naficy, Founder & CEO of Minted.com, joined the class today and was interviewed by Reid Hoffman.
Mariam offered up candid and detailed insights on her past experiences:
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…