[quantgenius]

We completed startup school (https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/470). Took us about 3 hours to create a Keynote presentation and add audio to it.

Hopefully, this provides a somewhat different perspective. We aren't your typical founders in their twenties.

Startup School was overall very positive. Speaking with our advisor, Michael Johnston was absolutely excellent. He is an absolute mensch, very helpful, consistently useful advice and very generous with his time.

That having been said, would I say that time spent on startup school consistently added more value than just spending that time doing one of a) hacking away and pushing forward, b) resting or c) exercising? Nope. If you need outside validation and an external push and someone keeping you accountable for you to keep pushing forward, it's going to have much more value. On the other hand, if you know what you need to get done and your startup is something that makes you jump out of bed in the morning so you can get to it, which is how I feel about our startup, I'm not sure that you aren't better off just doing that and avoiding any distractions.

The startup school videos were consistently very good. I would recommend everyone watch those, even on topics that they think they know a fair amount about.

[quantgenius]

One more thing. We are pre-launch. If we had already launched then I think startup school would have been much more helpful than it was, because the checking in every week with revenue numbers would have created a lot more urgency. A lot of the advice is more tailored to what to do once you are already launched rather than what to do pre-launch. If you are a company like us and have to go through a bunch of regulatory hoops to get off the ground, you will probably benefit more if you do startup school once you have already launched.

[giarc]

Your site seems to be down at the moment.

I read your blurb under your presentation, admittedly did not watch your presentation. However I would say that your blurb comes off too much of an attack on robo advisors and not enough about your own company/approach and how you're different from every other active investor. I'd focus on why you're good, rather than on why the competition is bad.

[quantgenius]

We can't talk too much about why we are different given that a) we aren't SEC and NFA registered yet. b) there are legal issues around saying you generate better returns than the competition.

We talk a little bit about why we are different in the video so give it a listen if you are interested.

[peacetreefrog]

Interesting about points a, b, c. That's sort of the impression I got (though I applied, got rejected, and kept pushing forward, so maybe it's wishful thinking).

Would you say the connections/networking were a big asset?