Startup School 2013 Doodles

by simonebrunozzi • 13 years ago

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gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Thanks for posting! If anything is unclear (it's always hard to find quotes without trimming too much context), let me know.

simonebrunozzi5• 13 years ago

Gregory, I think you did an amazing job! If you want, I can send you some pictures you can use, if you'd like to add them. Let me know.

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Would love to! username at gmail

cygwin982• 13 years ago

How did you get the pictures to each person at the bottom of the page? Photoshop over their genuine pictures?

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Yup. I experimented with adding some features.. but it looked way too creepy: http://cl.ly/image/3s2P2z0j1Q33

sillysaurus2• 13 years ago

Hi Greg. Thanks for your work here -- it looks great! I have a few questions.

Which mistake was Zuck referring to with "That mistake cost me billions"?

What did he mean by "When a problem arises, lockdown"?

What did Chase mean by "The worst part of being a nonprofit is that nobody says no"?

What did Balaji mean by "Show people what a world run by Silicon Valley would look like (without disrupting)"? Politically?

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Good questions!

1) They naively structured Facebook in the early days, and Peter Theil had them restructure. Then Eduardo didn't move, so his stock didn't vest. That cost Zuck billions (according to his offhand comment).

2) When there was a problem, nobody would be allowed to leave. They don't do that anymore (because it's illegal), but teams sometimes commit themselves to it on their own.

3) People don't want to write him a check, but they also feel too bad to outrightly say "no". So, he had a ton of "they're about to write us a check"s, yet nobody ever did.

4) He wants us to show the world the benefits of SV's way of doing things. However, imposing it would upset people. Rather, we should be enticing them by showing them what it could be like.

Amygaz• 13 years ago

Simply want to join my voice to others by saying this is amazing and the design is very inspiring. It is simple, informative, and feels personal. Kudos!

joshdance• 13 years ago

Awesome. Love the sketches. Did you use Paper?

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Only in the most literal sense :)

Paper: Mixed Media, 5.5inx8.5in notebook by Strathmore

Pens: Uni-ball Vision Micro

Scanned; shading was done after in Photoshop. I tried using Paper, but it was too hard to write longer quotes.

_xhok• 13 years ago

That is actually so slick. I wish more web services had designs like this.

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Thanks!

ajiang2• 13 years ago

Beautifully implemented. If it's not too much to ask, please consider making public the source code behind the display and design - really gorgeous way of showing a collection of notes.

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Already is: https://github.com/gkoberger/startupnotes

(I did it fast; I need to refactor soon. Also, I'll add a license.)

EDIT: Open license added, have fun with it!

ajiang2• 13 years ago

You are the man. And you just got yourself another twitter follower :)

simonebrunozzi5• 13 years ago

Super nice job!

lindowe• 13 years ago

Awesome design and thanks for open sourcing!

StewartD• 13 years ago

Man this website is gorgeous. Great work. follows @gkoberger

floetic• 13 years ago

Excellent work! One thing you missed on Nathan Blecharczyk's talk... "VCs want the B's Baby! (not the M's)"

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

haha I wanted to include it, but I left that out because he didn't actually mean it -- he was quoting someone else and it was bad (albeit probably true) advice. Hard to convey all that in a simple doodle.

simonebrunozzi5• 13 years ago

Yes, agree.

phogster• 13 years ago

Is there a video of these presentations?

mwww• 13 years ago

The official website says: "We'll have videos of the individual talks up as soon as we can." (http://startupschool.org)

asperous2• 13 years ago

Dat affiliate link ;). Only joking, you deserve it, this is great work.

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

I'm calling it a "Series A(mazon)" round

selmnoo2• 13 years ago

Wait, where's the affiliate link? I don't see it anywhere.

Small comment about the site: looks great and well-made, I just wish that every next page click didn't populate browser history, such that I needed to hit 'back' 10 times to get back to where I was.

josefresco• 13 years ago

Annoying, but it allows for linking to specific "slides".

asperous2• 13 years ago

http://startupnotes.org/#page/18 above the book

zaguios• 13 years ago

It looks really nice, but there might be a problem for someone reading these notes who didn't actually watch startup school. For example in Watsi's section you write "Worst part about being a non-profit: Nobody says NO", that could be a sarcastic comment, or it could be a problem of too much funding, or it could be it's actually meaning that everybody actually says no, but just not to his face. Also, the starting quotes without ending quotes drive me a little crazy, but that's just a personal thing.

zck• 13 years ago

In context, Chase Adam said something like "The worst part about being a non-profit: everybody is like 'yeah, this is really cool', but they don't write a check. Nobody says 'NO'."

scotthtaylor• 13 years ago

Great work!

hackybadger• 13 years ago

Simply. Excellent.

tannerc• 13 years ago

Great format, simple execution and presentation for us who were unable to attend, lots of valuable insights.

I think the theme that stands out for me personally from all of these notes is: Find something you can work on almost non-stop, expect to fail a lot (because you will), learn and adapt, keep trying.

localuser• 13 years ago

Great work. I noticed on the Dan Siroker (optmizely) slide that he states them having 140 customers, is that number right? Their site says 6000.

theblackswan• 13 years ago

Nice work.. and some good 1-liners.

crazed_climber• 13 years ago

Too bad your page flip animation violates Apple's patent.

http://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=D0670713&SectionNum=1&IDK...

kcent• 13 years ago

This is great! Awesome summary, and your quote doodles kicked the pants off of mine for sure. :)

daljeetv• 13 years ago

Great Job! All of the startup school notes being posted on the internet have helped me make up a little bit for not being able to attend startup school 2013!

brackin• 13 years ago

I would buy this as a little hand book. That'd be awesome.

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

I've been doing them every year ( http://gkoberger.net/m/startup-school ); would love to eventually do something like that. I wouldn't want to make money; maybe I could donate proceeds to Watsi?

001sky• 13 years ago

these would be cool swag !

(also, nice step up...I like the booklet > scroll)

jplmelanson• 13 years ago

Can anybody elaborates on Mark Zuckerberg's note "That stupid movie..."? :)

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

pg asked about FaceMash, and he said something like "It was nothing. Everyone thinks it was a huge deal. That stupid movie..."

dmazin• 13 years ago

He was frustrated at its portrayal that Facebook was a direct result of Facemash.

hansy• 13 years ago

Mark was talking about how he always envisioned a way to connect people. And he was citing examples of early hacks he made in college. Of course, his most notorious one was the "FaceMash" hack, the one the movie, "The Social Network," put a lot of emphasis on. Hence, Mark was venting a little frustration that his other notable achievements went largely unnoticed by the public.

nodesocket• 13 years ago

Awesome. Much better than my hand-written notes.

http://justink.svbtle.com/my-hand-written-notes-from-startup...

adeptus• 13 years ago

Everyone is praising you on the look/feel of your website, which I agree is pretty cool; however, the content of what "people" learned from the conference seems all but completely useless (unless the conference sucked that much that all you got out of each speaker was a couple of 1 liner's??). Not sure if you were serious about the content or just messing around to demo your website.

parijaatha• 13 years ago

I don't think the idea here is to transcribe everything that got said during the conference. Ideas which translated well into doodles have been captured here. Not to mention what qualifies as "completely useless" is highly subjective.

fenguin• 13 years ago

These are beautiful! You should sell these, maybe individually as mugs/posters - I'd definitely buy some key one-liners for our office.

For those of you who want a bit more context, here are two sets of notes from this weekend:

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...

There is some overlap between the two but also some differences so I'd suggest reading both.

[Disclaimer: I produced the first set - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6578780]

passfree• 13 years ago

I took the courtesy to convert these into pdf slides (for easier reading on iDevices, etc) you can download them from here (http://blog.websecurify.com/uploads/aa_StartupSchool.pdf) for now but it will be great if Gregory puts them on his website next to the github link.

Thanks for the great work Greg!

thinker3• 13 years ago

This is fantastic and beautiful!

I made a few sketches myself as part of a larger project I'm working on (a year without cameras): http://crafture.me/post/64711241777/startup-school-2013

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Wow what an awesome project. Keep up the amazing work!

thinker3• 13 years ago

Thanks!

simonrobb• 13 years ago

Love your project - were you experienced as an illustrator when you decided to do this? What was the purpose behind it?

thinker3• 13 years ago

Not really. I was a hobbyist sketcher/painter up till high school and then didn't have time for it when I went to university other than a few random spurts. I felt like I wanted to bring back this passion of mine after a good 10 years of being away from it. I had also been feeling completely addicted to capturing moments on my phone/DSLR and wanted to channel that desire to capture into something more creative and challenging.

I wrote a post explaining my motivations if you're interested: http://crafture.me/post/60578682070/a-year-without-cameras

mrwnmonm• 13 years ago

when we will have the videos?

mikeadeleke• 13 years ago

You are ridiculous!

mceoin2• 13 years ago

Dude, sweet post!

Big fan of sketch notes myself so I'll definitely be forking that repo.

http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22019990/V84GJ7NUzlOJ_V9l...

mceoin2• 13 years ago

^ Sketchnote, but not from Startup School.

ecesena2• 13 years ago

Beautiful! Did you tweet it? Can you post the link? We are curating a list of the best content on theneeds [1] and I'd like to add this one (we only import feeds or tweets).

[1] http://www.theneeds.com/learn/top-content/startupschool

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

https://twitter.com/gkoberger/status/392334524257804288

ecesena2• 13 years ago

added, thanks!

simonebrunozzi5• 13 years ago

Ciao Emanuele, nice to see you here as well :)

trey_swann• 13 years ago

Insanely great. I'm a huge fan. Thank you!

ishake• 13 years ago

How'd you create the Doodles? Just sketched them by hand and scanned them? or Photoshop?

gkoberger14• 13 years ago

Sketched (pen+paper) and scanned, touched up and colored in Photoshop.

exo_duz• 13 years ago

This is beautiful!!.... Thanks for creating this. This will be good reading material whilst waiting for the videos.

jermaink• 13 years ago

Dear Gregory, this is really brilliant! Very well done!

Startup School 2013 Doodles

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