Ten Things I Learned At MicroConf 2011
by irms
Firstly, how about a big fat round of applause for the likes of Rob Walling and Mike Taber? They put on one rockin’ conference for self-funded startups. If you didn’t go, that was a bad decision. Don’t make that mistake next year.
For, like, the amount you spend on bottled water each year, you could have listened to and learned from ONE-JILLION smart people talking about startups and what to do/not do with them. How’s that for value? (Seriously: 11 speakers, and 105 interesting attendees. Andrew Warner, Hiten Shah, Ramit Sethi, and Patrick McKenzie among them.)
Here’s some stuff I learned that you would have learned if you had gone to Vegas instead of playing with Instagram filters at work:
- Test your stuff, but don’t waste your time testing.
- Email is not dead. Don’t let TechCrunch fool you.
- Investment, booooo. Bootstap, yay!
- Tomato juice and video poker make a good time in Vegas.
- Noah Kagan is kind of an ass. But he likes it that way.
- “Hope is not a strategy.”
- Always ask yourself, “If my product were built today, how would I market it?”…before you start building.
- If you write desktop apps…stop building desktop apps.
- Thongs made of candy look like fun on the shelf in the gift shop, but one uncomfortable conversation with a nerd reveals their impracticability.
- Don’t throw bottles of Sriracha to the audience if you plan on saying offensive things onstage. They get thrown back.
In addition to learning a ton, I also had a blast. Put me on the list for MicroConf 2012. I’ll drive if you buy the food.
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