This is an excerpt from my talk "Startup DNA" (http://www.slideshare.net/brikis98/startup-dna) that just focuses on the "Speed Wins" concept. For more info, check out my book "Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams" at http://www.hello-startup.net.
2. Yevgeniy Brikman
ybrikman.com | @brikis98 | brikis98.blogspot.com
Worked at a couple successful startups:
LinkedIn, TripAdvisor
Built a lot of stuff:
Enterprise products, hiring tools, scalable infrastructure,
company culture, engineering branding, travel apps, VoIP
software, innovation programs.
About me
3. Wrote a book about what I learned
www.hello-startup.net
4. These are my personal observations on a
few traits that make startups successful.
14. ● Started as a way to share images in Game
Neverending, a massively multiplayer online
game.
● Rewritten to focus on photo sharing
● Acquired by Yahoo for $35m in 2005
15. ● Started out as burbn, an HTML5 mobile app
for location-based social networking with
photo sharing as one of many features
● Completely rewritten as a photo sharing
focused native app
● Sold to facebook for $1bn in 2012
16. Twitter
● Started out as odeo, a site to create and
share podcasts
● Struggling to stay alive, they held a
hackathon. Jack Dorsey proposed the
microblogging concept (originally, text
message only).
● 500m users and $10b valuation in 2012
17. "Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying
will eventually make you look like an overnight
success."
Biz Stone
19. Richard Branson
● Virgin Clothes failed
● Virgin Cola failed
● Virgin Vision failed
● Virgin Vodka failed
● Virgin Wine failed
● Virgin Jeans failed
● Virgin Cars failed
● ... and many others failed
● ... but several hundred others succeeded
20. "I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work."
Thomas Edison
21. Reid Hoffman
● His first startup was Socialnet.com: a social
network for dating.
● Never heard of it? Exactly.
● Went on to become COO of Paypal, co-
founder of LinkedIn, and one of the most
successful angel investors of the last
decade.
22.
23. "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a
sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
Woody Allen
24. Note: these are not failures, but experiments.
The goal of an experiment is learning.
32. Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Idea
Dynamic/interpreted
languages
Static languages
Find error Find error
34. Time
Maturity
Mature, stable
Proof of concept
Product development (technology comparison)
Idea
Dynamic/interpreted
languages
Static languages
Innovation
Advantage