Talk at Startup School Europe 2014 at The Brewery in London
YC Partner Adora Cheung shares her framework for how founders can efficiently make use of their time. She covers ways to identify and prioritize tasks, in addition to how you can measure their impact on your company. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6o-how-to-prioritize-your-time This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register and join the community at https://www.startupschool.org/ Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 1:41 Real vs. fake progress 4:10 Task prioritization 7:10 Grading impact 9:48 Grading complexity 11:20 How well am I prioritizing? 11:51 Weekly updates 13:30 Maker's/manager's schedule 14:57 Be decisive 15:55 Conclusion
YC Partner Adora Cheung covers the importance of defining and tracking KPIs to understand how effectively your startup is reaching your goals. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6j-how-to-set-kpis-and-goals-sus-2019 This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register and join the community at https://www.startupschool.org/ Timestamps 00:00 What is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI)? 00:39 Why do KPIs matter? 1:33 What are the right KPIs to set? 1:46 Setting your primary metric 2:22 What are the characteristics of a good primary metric? 5:32 The two best primary metrics 6:50 When should you consider active users as a metric? 9:20 KPIs for bio and hardtech businesses 11:15 Secondary metrics 12:56 The best KPI for an unlaunched company 13:55 Setting metric-based goals 15:20 How fast should I grow? 17:15 What does success look like for you? 17:40 Guidelines for defining a goal 19:45 How to pick a goal 20:44 Tracking Progress 21:18 Leveraging your primary goal 22:27 Using the Startup School weekly update
Adora Cheung speaks at Y Combinator Female Founders Conference 2015. Adora Cheung is the CEO & co-founder of Homejoy, the leading online platform for home services. She previously led product for some of the top social applications at Slide. And before that, she was a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Rochester before coming to her senses and moving to San Francisco to pursue startup opportunities.
How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014. Lecture Transcript: http://www.tech.genius.com/Adora-cheung-lecture-4-building-product-talking-to-users-and-growing-annotated So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users? Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing, in Lecture 4 of How to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at http://www.startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec04 Discuss this lecture: http://www.startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64033