[ericb]

Startup school was super helpful. Mike Robbins from Circuitlab/Pantelligent was an amazing mentor!

Every week before our group meetup, we had a few questions to fill out that really got us thinking deeply about our business. I wouldn't have thought something as simple as a few pointed questions would yield so much fruit, but it really was awesome. The questions force you to think about on your business value, how to describe it, your target customer and how you might address them. The advice is sound, and comes from the mentor's and YC's experience, which really grounds it. We'd do it again in a heartbeat.

[compumike]

Thanks for the kind words, Eric. The questions were not universal across groups... I had to come up with those each week!

[ericb]

Wow!!! I considered that possibility, but figured they were too good to be something that wasn't honed over the years.

They'd make a good template for the other groups--I would absolutely go back to them for thought-exercises for future ventures.