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Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012

Joel Spolsky, founder of Fog Creek Software and StackExchange, speaks at Y Combinator's Startup School in 2012. He shares his perspective on building startups.

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recalls it as a well-liked talk from a respected founder, cited on startup ambition and on how few servers StackOverflow needed.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Y Combinator
Topic
startup advice
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2016

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Joel is a class act. He spoke at YC's Startup School, which brings out his unique perspective - [VIDEO]

    revorad on Hacker News · 2014-07
    In Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
  • > Startups are overdosing on ambition these days > Not every billion dollar business starts with a billion dollar idea. Not everything unfundable by VCs is unworthy of doing. It's interesting the author is being a VC is understandably blinded by the bubble that never …

    mehrdada on Hacker News · 2016-11
    In You Don’t Need a Master Plan, You Just Need to Start

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