Turning Ideas Into RealitySeth Miller
Co-Founder / CEO @ Rapchat
While in college I started a company called
Rapchat
How it all began….
How can we get rich quick?
Winter break 2013 - Road trip to Florida
Snapchat seems to be doing well…
So simple yet worth a billion!
Screw it, let’s just freestyle
DUDE!
2 hours of terrible rapping later….
Let’s do snapchat for rap
First, find someone who knows how to code
Then, form a company
Time to get ready for LAUNCH
“we should be testing in 4 weeks”
marketing plans
press
rapperslaunch party
t-shirtsmaking millions
1 year later…..
“we should be testing in 4 weeks”
Time to learn how to code to build new features
How to find users
How to build a team
How to get people to work for equity
How to raise money
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc
AND LEARN…..
Then, out of nowhere…
Adding 100k users a mo. People are sharing raps like crazy
Team is fired up
How can you turn an idea into reality?
Start with an idea
Research that idea
Find a business partner
If it’s an app or website… learn how to code
Continue to update product to meet their needs
Follow smart people
Chris Sacca
Kevin Rose
Tim Ferriss
Ryan HolidayJosh Elman
Brad Feld
Kevin Systrom
Alexis Ohanian
Evan Williams
Ben Horowitz Andrew Chen
Build relationshipsHey (someone way smarter than me),
My name is Seth and I’m a 16 year old entrepreneur. I started x which does y.
I just got done reading your book and was curious what you meant by “viral growth”.
Do you think searching twitter for mentions and reaching out is a good strategy to try and kickstart viral growth?
-Seth
Understand starting a company is like a
It’s time consuming
school + work + friends + homework + soccer + basketball + my own company??
But is AWESOME
and totally worth all the BS you deal with
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