An old friend from my Stanford days asked me about the venture capital industry in silicon valley and I wanted to post a heavily modified version of my response to her online for more general consumption. The advice is very general, but I find that the vast majority of people who want to become VCs are missing …
Check out this talk I gave at Stanford recently. Unfortunately, the camera died halfway through the Q&A so I cut that portion off. Sound quality isn’t great so I made up for it with some Beethoven. Hope you enjoy! – Andrew
I’ve gotten a lot of cool responses regarding my recent experiences with JetBlue (here and here), but the coolest response I got was: He says you definitely have a knack for getting people involved. I told him that you could make people believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. That’s officially the coolest thing anyone …
This is the story of how my tweet cost JetBlue $99,342 but saved them millions. If you want the entire saga of how JetBlue massively screwed up, failed to communicate, and then tried to screw over 150 people, read my post about the JetBlue Flight 278 Fiasco. Instead of re-living a pretty shitty 20-hour ordeal, this …
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So I wrote a quick answer to a question on Quora that’s been getting a little attention and I thought I’d share it here: Read Quote of Andrew Bellay’s answer to Startups: What are the best-kept secrets about startups? on Quora
Andrew Bellay is a 3-time entrepreneur, self-taught coder, 3-degree holding, problem solver & meta-engineer. Andrew is a jack-of-all-trades and even a master of a few… Andrew has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Eduction, and Fast Company; He’s recently spoken at the Campus Technology Forum in Long Beach, CA & Boston, MA, AlwaysOn Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, Stanford University, and The …
You hear it from all the VCs…you even hear it from seasoned entrepreneurs…but I always thought it sounded like BS. “Team is everything” they say, “We’d rather invest in an A-Team with a B-Idea than a B-Team with an A-Plus-Idea.” Yeah, yeah, whatever. Yeah – not whatever. I’ve made a ton of mistakes over the …
