Greg McAdoo at Y Combinator's Stanford Startup School

2. Start an Inferno with a Match Stanford Startup School

3. They Didn’t Need a Lot of Money to Start (<$2M)

4. …But Got Fairly Big ~$ 500,000M $264 M

5. Not Only Great P&Ls, Great Companies Steve Wozniak & Steve Jobs Apple Trip Hawkins Electronic Arts Sandy Lerner & Len Bosack Cisco Jerry Yang & David Filo Yahoo Larry Page & Sergey Brin Google Jen-Hsun Huang nVidia Max Levchin& Peter Thiel PayPal Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & Jawed Karim YouTube Alfred Lin & Tony Hsieh Zappos Trevor Healy & Daniel Mattes Jajah Omar Hamoui AdMob Steve Streit Green Dot

6. Its Not About Being Small

7. They Thought Differently . . . They Had To

8. They Didn’t Throw Money at Problems

9. They Were More Clever

10. They Built Simple Easy-to-Use Products

11. They Were More Focused

12. They Rang the Cash Register Early

13. They Stayed Close to the Customer

14. They Moved with Greater Agility

15. Its Not Just About Being Small

16. Its About Doing More With Less

17. Achates Power Dave Johnson Diesel engine systems

18. Steve & Steve Sandy & Len Larry & Sergey Ship Something Early

19. Put a Price on it

20. AirBnB Brian Chesky Joe Grebbia Nathan Blecharczyk Peer-to-peer travel network

21. We Love Ramen Profitable Cheap PCs Free Software Low Cost Infrastructures User Generated Content Viral Distribution

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