Ask yourself: Are you looking for a technical person or a partner to work on a project with? How is that going? Is it going well? It’s a tough challenge to find someone to help you build your dream. That’s one of the things I discussed at a talk at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business …
The question I get asked the most (after “How do I build an app?”) is “How do I learn to code?” — So let me take a few minutes to tell you what worked for me. Quick background: I’m a self-taught coder. I had dabbled with C++ a bit as a kid (12-13) but I didn’t …
Definition of Wizard of Oz Testing in Eric Ries’ book “The Lean Startup”: “where customers believe they are interacting with the actual product, but behind the scenes human beings are doing the work” The biggest pro is that you can move quickly.The biggest con is that you still have to build something eventually. I wrote …
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An awesome Stanford student who I mentor emailed me with the question below and I thought that I’d share his question and my response with LinkedIn: However, one question I had for you was, “how exactly do you go about STARTING a startup?” I always have ideas for apps and for products, however they never …
One random tidbit for college students to consider about grades and why they matter: I had a 4.0 at UT Austin for 7 semesters and that definitely made me an extra $70,000, got me into Stanford for grad school, and drastically changed the entire course of my life – proving that GPA CAN MATTER. 4.0 …