Berkeley Haas MBAs visit ShareThis to talk startups, social media & entrepreneurism

Great to meet the Berkeley Haas crew today; thanks for stopping by the ShareThis office! Also, thank you to Jacqueline and Janice in our office for getting everything set up, including your schwag!

Here is the video from our talk:

And here are my notes from the talk today, as promised:

Here are the slides from my talk: http://drod.io/1O3j2k2R0e3X

My "3 biggest pitfalls of starting a business" points:

• Founder issues - pick the right founders: Paul Graham has some great posts related to founders and startups: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
• Product: focusing, launching MVP, iterating quickly to find product/market fit: Great post by Jason Polites on "The Big shift" http://polites.com/2013/04/09/the-big-shift/ , by Marc Andreessen on Product/Market fit http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee204/ProductMarketFit.html and some posts I wrote about it: http://danielodio.com/optimizing-product-market-fit-first-be-proactive-then-be-reactive http://danielodio.com/could-the-8020-principle-be-wrong http://danielodio.com/focusing-on-focus-why-we-sold-appmakr
• Fundraising: Lots of AngelList tips here: http://go.DanielOdio.com/angellist

The mobile crush cometh -- I believe CEOs will be fired for missing mobile: http://danielodio.com/a-warning-to-fortune-1000-ceos-the-mobile-crush-cometh

Building company culture: Example of our Socialize Manifesto: http://go.GetSocialize.com/manifesto and a great example of two very different company cultures between Google & Amazon: http://danielodio.com/eating-your-own-dogfood-google-vs-amazon

Thoughts on Being acquired: http://go.DanielOdio.com/acquired

The Big Shift: http://polites.com/2013/04/09/the-big-shift/

Lifehacking:

• http://go.DanielOdio.com/instrument
• http://go.danielodio.com/rapportive
• http://go.DanielOdio.com/massive
• http://go.DanielOdio.com/bigdripper
• http://go.DanielOdio.com/hackpad

My Bio: http://bio.danielodio.com