Harvard i-lab | Fake It Till You Make It with Dan Sullivan of Crowdly

No video

Harvard i-lab | Fake It Till You Make It with Dan Sullivan of Crowdly

Рет қаралды 92,166

10 жыл бұрын

Fake It Till You Make It with Dan Sullivan of Crowdly
Non-technical entrepreneurs, stop talking big and start building small. Bemoaning your inability to attract a technical co-founder to "just build it" is failure's waiting room. Hiring out an agency to build your grand vision now is a great way to lose quickly. In Dan's own words:
Learn from my useful mistakes and occasional successes, from cashing in my 401k to build a mediocre app I didn't need, to bootstrapping through Techstars as the program's only non-technical sole founder, to building out a great team at a (currently) thriving company that just closed a seven figure seed round.
I will focus on the very short term nuts and bolts. We'll talk through what exactly can you do in the next four weeks to substantially move your idea forward. In our conversation, I'll answer questions, share my ideology and process, tips, tools, and talk plainly about the ups and downs of my own experience.
How to scope your prototype, what to measure, what it is, and importantly, what it isn't (hint: a first version of your eventual product)
How I hack process to get real milestones really quickly that can gut check your assumptions, or make it more attractive to potential technical talent, partners, or investors.
Removing false positives from your prototypes, and determine true intention. (Don't ask people to say nice things about you and then take it as evidence).
Cheat sheet on the free or cheap tools that will be your best friend.
Startup frenemies. How to get good help from good people, and what offers you should refuse.
Non-technical Founders can build great companies. So many fail by overestimating the first step. Think small, and start building something great.

Пікірлер: 49

@sunkanmivaughan6581 8 жыл бұрын

"ask for advice when you want money, ask for money when you want advice ",hmm. Deep

@sirisaksirisak6981 3 жыл бұрын

Winner no matter what they said always right. Winner speak louder,loser speak noiseless."Learn from the other mistakes",english proverb.Thank you so much for your value experience lesson.

@craigarmstrong5241 10 жыл бұрын

I added substantial parts of Dan's talk into teaching content for my entrepreneurship courses. Thanks, Dan and Harvard i-Lab!

@BoostedLeonitus 10 жыл бұрын

This is the first guy that ever said some real stuff like step 123. get a domain make contacts ect. everybody else is trying to make money off some course then never says anything worth a penny.

@christopherdixon5586 6 жыл бұрын

One of the best start up advice videos I have seen, can tell this person has learned many lessons, invaluable advice

@tseponkalai6528 7 жыл бұрын

"Do not defend your ugly baby", made me think....A LOT!!!!

@HaulywoodReviews 8 жыл бұрын

I wish I had heard this lecture many years ago. I have to learn to 'put an ugly baby out into the world' and validate the vision before engaging in applying a coat of paint. Thank you for this.

@TheDerpsFinest 2 жыл бұрын

You put that into words so perfectly

@Olga-ey9un 8 жыл бұрын

Awesome presentation. Thank you for the thorough, straight to the point, no BS, information and advice.

@AudreyKim0810 8 жыл бұрын

Amazing presentation and talk. Thank you so much. I would have enjoyed much more if they didn't mute out s***, f*** sections. Thank you thank you.

@josephclark861 9 жыл бұрын

I like the distinction between "vision" and "product".

@Kuroganashi 8 жыл бұрын

This is Very Eye-Opening Specially for people that are Stuck, Lost and confused. I personally can use some of this stuff on my own Life. Thanks.

@Itaivarochik Жыл бұрын

This is the best talk i've heard in years. Thank you @DanSullivan

@boysangur 8 жыл бұрын

I can't get past the fact that he used a wrong Pulp Fiction image. That's not the scene where he is talking to Bruce Willis. That took place in a bar. Here, he is talking to Jules, contemplating the ifs. I'm not concentrating on the right things here.

@turkerkaraoglu1675 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot . These are very valuable advices, It has helped me sort out a lot of glitches in my business plans.

@arthuriharvey08 Жыл бұрын

Great ideas! Thank you!

@udoyoung1627 Жыл бұрын

dont be a maGoof and fake it til u make... put in the time and cerebral grind to be superlative from the outset going into any entrepreneurial endeavor !!!

@africaapps2115 10 жыл бұрын

This is dope, just what i needed to explain the decision to enter entrepreneur and more so check to validate the steps taken

@hosados 7 жыл бұрын

Africa Apps gtttty

@hosados 7 жыл бұрын

Africa Apps and other programs t The I don't Ugh the I 1122

@kobefitzpatrick8643 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Great speaker! I appreciate this.

@galaxyone3524 Жыл бұрын

Hopper\\ step-by-step\ Hi Sullivan; how r ya? I wish I can visit Harvard and learn up on PGM... IF wishes were horses

@dg9723 3 жыл бұрын

To get insights I like “Dan’s question why would you not use my product? “ If someone asked me 10 years ago why would I not use Uber I would had said you expect me to get into strangers car at night? No way I am not doing it. Then uber goes out and losses money since inception in the counts of billions and gets mass appeal. Seeing everyone else doing it. That stage of being brand of gaining trust. That changes things. I guess that could had been tested by just saturating One neighborhood and see how people will behave at scale with ride sharing.

@whartonbizzo 10 жыл бұрын

Excellent material!

@glassbuddha 4 жыл бұрын

This is so true. Do not show all

@sumaadam3645 7 жыл бұрын

from the day on iam not merely gonna fake my idea but fake my character as well ahah

@AbdulAbdul-qp4yo 10 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@kesselsol 3 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to note just because you guys probably realise how important criticism is. This guy talks way too fast unfortunately. He gives good information, but speaks a bit too fast. OH let me put the playback speed lower. OOOOH yea 0.75 speed is a little too slow but better. He gets clearer over time tho. He was just fast at first. Uhg im so going to apply all this knowledge to my story pitch. "Vitamins are nice... but people buy painkillers. Don't sell vitamins, sell painkillers." LET ME JUST WRITE THAT DOWN. Man totally going to use these knowledge for investing too.

@dg9723 3 жыл бұрын

I think I am going to go against Dan advice and make incremental fridge as a mvp. Who here would buy? fridge which is connected to the internet? not enough? Maybe sominala poisoning. Food allergy scanner and separator. if it threw out junk food. if it did nutritional count. lower power is incremental. if it shrink back into the wall. Did not look like a fridge. maybe made it look nicer than anything out there- the strategy apple had in 1997. To really save power and environment was community fridge where parts of the fridge are boxed out like a neighborhood postal box. All these ideas sound crazy. just having some fun with it, but is there way to make fridge better?

@radekk5820 3 жыл бұрын

Product idea: SaaS to add bad words back to videos.

@morthim 5 жыл бұрын

gfd is?

@VideovigilanteUSA 4 жыл бұрын

I think he was talking about #uber

@dg9723 3 жыл бұрын

Anyone have experience with unlearning things? I could see his advice is sound especially about that your protype should embarrass you/ ugly product. Get a protype and And see if it sells then build and optimizes things. If I could use that to drum up bunch of business then start to put in the optimizations. What my mind wants to do is make a beautiful product. Something that would wow people. Why is it that with sports and in life we have tendency to hang on to our comfort zone strategies even when one realizes its failed strategy but the mind goes only if we did this. Is this cognitive dissonance. It’s what we know. I will think hard and long about this and consciously make a plan to build mvp and prove the concept first before jumping into optimization. If anyone has some strategies to give up old patterns would love to hear.

@kgupta2205 Жыл бұрын

Elizabeth Holmes must have been his student.

@JBulsa Жыл бұрын

psycho. rape victim

@VideovigilanteUSA 4 жыл бұрын

@1:12:00 Jimmy yang Slicon valley

@bramskiebiet 8 жыл бұрын

What is this guy saying :P fake your idea untill someone proofs you that your idea is great? I think I rather overthink my idea untill I think I need this is idea to translate into realisation. (this is 13 minutes in and I am 15 minutes and out now)

@bramskiebiet 8 жыл бұрын

I missed the description stating 'Non-technical entrepreneurs'