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

Now what….

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”

FINALLY

Now what….

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…..

Meanwhile…

May 2014

Then, out of nowhere…

Adding 100k users a mo. People are sharing raps like crazy

Team is fired up

Adios

How can you turn an idea into reality?

Start with an idea

Research that idea

Find a business partner

Start building

If it’s an app or website… learn how to code

Talk to users

Continue to update product to meet their needs

Tips for ballin

Read a LOT

Follow smart people

Chris Sacca

Kevin Rose

Tim Ferriss

Ryan HolidayJosh Elman

Brad Feld

Kevin Systrom

Alexis Ohanian

Evan Williams

Ben Horowitz Andrew Chen

Podcasts

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

In conclusion

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

seth@rapchat.me 614-634-2357