pretty excited to read the new book, Rework by the 37 Signals duo. Also feeling like the message is quite timely for my ventures and ready to get down to reworking a lot of what and how we do things.
here are a few media bits I've collected over the past few years from seeing the 37 Signals founders are YCombinator's Startup School.
Notes from Jason Fried's SS 09 presentation
super short video featuring David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) explaining how you need to think about charging for your product/app/service. Simple questions: Would you take out your credit card and buy it? How much would you be willing to spend to get the product?
video angle is a bit wonky, sorry about that, but its not at all painful to watch.
Found this killer video of David Heinemeier Hansson chatting with a group of us at Y Combinator's Startup School last year at Stanford University. This was well before the economy really tanked, now it's the mantra d'etat of almost all companies, but certainly wasn't at the time. DHH's main keynote at the event was brilliant and had a similar message regarding not needing to be the next youtube/facebook/google, but simply a sustainable, profitable company that does something valuable and you own. Sounds pretty good, def the path we are taking with hoodiepeople.com.
Startup School 2009 should be coming up soon, which I'm def looking forward to as it is likely the best one day conference of the year and its free.
