For those of you attending Startup School next weekend or planning to watch the video stream, do you have any questions you'd like answered that are specific to me/Heroku?
I agree with this.. Given the large competition for Heroku, I would really like to know how you guys got your initial traction.. what type of bare bones marketing did you do that worked and so on.
I'm personally interested in hearing any advice you have for graduating students who are deciding between:
-- working at a large corporation (Google, Microsoft, Amazon)
-- working at a (for lack of a better term) "well-established start-up" (Dropbox, Twitter, AirBnB)
-- working at a very young and small start-up
-- pursuing their own start-up
What experience should they expect to get from working at each of these "levels" and what is absolutely necessary to do/have before jumping between these "levels"?
While I agree that that sounds like an interesting topic, I'd really hope to get as much interesting information as possible that will help get a startup off the ground, rather than the various alternatives to creating one. I'd hope that most of the people attending Startup School lean far enough towards creating a startup that they don't necessarily want to hear about going to work for one instead. (And with all of the Startup School presenters likely hiring, that's a serious danger.)
Good point, Josh! Since this is my first start-up school, I guess I'm not sure what to expect yet. I'm sure there will be a lot of impacting founders stories and hopefully my questions will encourages a new set of insights.
Tell us how hard things were for you. It helps people like us that are used to everything going wrong without quitting. And plis, tell us multiple times to "NEVER QUIT". It's very important. Thanks .