16 - Emmett Shear - How to Run a User Interview - Listen - How to

16 - Emmett Shear - How to Run a User Interview

Listen now

Description

Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on. In this lecture, Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch, covers the latter. What can you learn by talking to users that you can’t learn by looking at data? What questions should you ask? How can user interviews define or redefine your product goals? From YC Startup Class - How to Start a Startup - Stanford CS183B Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Emmett-shear-lecture-16-how-to-run-a-user-interview-annotated See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/ Discuss this lecture: startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64045 Click to view: show page on Awesound

More Episodes

See all »

20 - Sam Altman - Later-Stage Advice

Sam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in (after product-market fit). Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! From YC Startup Class - How to Start a Startup - Stanford CS183B Lecture...

Published 01/06/16

19 - Sales And Marketing, How To Talk To Investors

Three segments in this lecture: Tyler Bosmeny, founder and CEO of Clever, starts off today's lecture with an overview of the Sales Funnel, and how to get to your first $1 Million. Michael Seibel, founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam and Partner at Y Combinator, then goes over how to talk to...

Published 01/06/16

18 - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (equity allocation, vesting), accounting, and other overhead right will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Kirsty Nathoo, CFO at Y Combinator, and Carolynn Levy, General Counsel at Y Combinator, cover...

Published 01/06/16