Video from Startup School Conference

Startup School is a great conference for people who are interested in startups. It is great that a video is available for people to watch online.


Watch live video from HackerTV on Justin.tv



[Update: full-length videos at Omnisio.com. It is very cool that the slides are being shown at the same time!]

Another startup lessons from the net.

Very interesting discussion and advices from the founder of the Gridjit site.

I like his discussion on the business model, where he is saying that you may not have all the business model figure out yet.

"So, I’m not saying you have to figure out your business model right away. I certainly don’t have mine completely figured out...What I am saying is that, given the direction things are going, you’ll want to do everything you can to make your business self-sustaining along the way. But only do that if it doesn’t compromise the quality of your product. Embrace constraints, as they say, and deliver a quality product that people want."

I think it also means that you should still give it a shot and figure it out later, if you believe your service is valuable. That's kind of true, Google didn't figure out his real business model until later on.

The key is to make it self-sustaining so you are still ok if it doesn't work out.

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer Article

Ten Questions with Jeffrey Pfeffer is a good interview article with lots of good suggestions on how to manage the company better. A good read.

Software idea and MBA works...

Have a new software idea since last week and I am still thinking a lot on the possibility of turning it into a real thing. Unfortunately, there are too many MBA works at this moment that I cannot spend too much time working on it.

Next week is going to be real~~ fun...... one Econ homework, two Acct homeworks and a Managerial Accounting EXAM!

I am still reading one of the required book, "The Goal". So far I only finished around 80 pages.