Zero-to-One Start Up

Question 1

Secret Question?

Answer 1

Have you identified a unique opportunity that others do not see?

Question 2

Who sells customers?

Answer 2

Business developer

Question 3

What are the most important first steps to start a startup?

Answer 3

• Right co-founder
• Both work full time
• No working remotely
• CEO is low paid

Question 4

What is Zero-to-One vs One-to-N businesses?

Answer 4

• Create something new.
• extend existed products and globalize.

Question 5

Durability Question:

Answer 5

Will your market position be defensible ten or twenty years into the future?

Question 6

Distribution Question:

Answer 6

Do you have a way not only to create but deliver your product?

Question 7

People Question?

Answer 7

Do you have the right people?

Question 8

Monopoly question :

Answer 8

Are you starting with a big share of a small market? (Monopoly and start in small scale)

Question 9

Author Peter Thiel (founder of PayPal) merged with X.com (Musk) main idea?

Answer 9

Question 10

Zero-to-One seven Questions by Peter Theil:

Answer 10

• Engineering
• Timing
• Monopoly
• People
• Distribution
• Durability
• Secret

Question 11

Zero-to-One solution to competition example

Answer 11

Merging PayPal (Theil) and X.com (Musk)

Question 12

Zero-to-One valuation of UBER, AIRBNB, SNAPCHAT

Answer 12

$40B, $10B, and #10B

Question 13

Timing Question:

Answer 13

Is now the right time to start your business?

Question 14

Engineering question:

Answer 14

Can you create breakthrough instead of improvements (10X, Monopoly)

Question 15

Zero-to-One Business examples Monopoly

Answer 15

Google —> Search engine

Facebook —> Social platform

Amazone —> Number of books

Question 16

Zero-to-one sales and product?

Answer 16

Sales as important as product

Question 17

Zero-to-one having a plan

Answer 17

Having a bad plan is better than not having a plan.

Question 18

What are the four secrets for startup success?

Answer 18

• Vision and not A/B testing
• 10X better product
• Small market then scale quickly
• Monopoly with no competition

Question 19

Zero-to-One Competition:

Answer 19

Competition kill profit

Question 20

Who sells companies?

Answer 20

Investment Banker

Question 21

What are the hidden secrets in AIRBNB and UBER?

Answer 21

Connecting Supply to Demand

Question 22

Who sells himself?

Answer 22

politician