SoftWave

Iako nikako ne volim postove koji se sastoje samo od linkova na postove i članke drugdje na Internetu (čast iznimkama, kao što su Borjine i Vukove “brze i kratke”), no svako toliko se pojavi neki zanimljiv link kojeg bih volio podijeliti s čitateljima. No, još me više zanimaju vaši komentari na neke od tih tekstova, pa ću pokrenuti malu, neslužbenu seriju koju sam nazvao “RFC” ili “request for comments”.

Prvi link je članak na inače odličnom blogu VentureBeat koji se, da vas naslov ne zavede, bavi prvenstveno temama zanimljivima startupima, a tek usput i venture tematikom. Njegov najnoviji post naslovljen je Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School, a u njemu autor — Mark Coker — prenosi sažete utiske sa Startup Schoola kojeg organizira Y Combinator Paula Grahama.

U ovoj maloj školici sudjelovala su znamenita imena s područja Weba i startupa, i preporučam da pročitate Markov izvještaj, a ovdje ću prenijeti nekoliko citata i poruka koje su iznijeli predavači na tom skupu — i jako me zanima vaše mišljenje na pojedine iznesene ideje:

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO FaceBooka:

If you want to found a successful company, you should only hire young people with technical expertise. [...] Young people are just smarter [...] It’s important to hire mostly coders, even in the marketing department, so if they want to change something on the web site all they have to do is log into the back-end and change copy on the fly.

Paul Buchheit, autor Gmaila:

His advice to entrepreneurs was to redefine their measures of success. While financial reward is nice, aspiring entrepreneurs should first and foremost seek out risk-taking opportunities where they can learn. He said startups allow employees to take on projects for which they have no qualifications. He referenced his own multi-year assignment to Gmail as a perfect example.

Paul Graham:

What’s stopping you from starting a startup? If you’re smart enough to worry about [if you're smart enough], you’re smart enough to start a successful startup. If you’re truly dimwitted, you can prove it to me by starting an enterprise software company which will surely fail (Graham doesn’t think too highly of enterprise software).

Edit: Paul je u međuvremenu objavio članak temeljen na predavanju sa Startup Schoola, naslovljen Why to Not Not Start a Startup. Odličan članak, vrijedan vlastitog RFC posta.

Max Levchin, suosnivač PayPala:

For channeling the user, Levchin says founders must step inside the minds of their target customers. In Levchin’s case, he says he must imagine himself as a 15-year-old girl with attention deficit disorder who’s looking for digital bling to dress up her MySpace or Zanga web page, while at the same time she’s chewing gum, talking on the phone, instant messaging with five friends, listening to music, and twirling her fingers through her hair.

Bilo ih je još, pročitajte cijeli tekst, ali najviše me zanimaju komentari na ove stvari koje sam naveo gore, a naročito na Zuckerbergove ideje da (u startupu) treba zapošljavati samo mlade programere, te da na sva mjesta treba zaposliti kodere.