Almost two years ago, Andy and I splurged to attend Tahoe Tech Talk hosted by Gary Vaynerchuk with an All-Star lineup of speakers including Chris Sacca, Dave Morin, Kevin Rose, and Dave McClure.

During each of their talks, Andy took notes and recently gave them to me.

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Chris Sacca

1. Start … Now
2. Go BIG
3. Worship Data
4. Get the fuck out of the way
5. Feed Talent (figuratively/literally)
6. Listen more than you talk
7. No Douchebags

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Dave Morin

1. Simplicity takes time
2. Quality is underrated. Focus on design.
3. Information scarcity means value
4. Advertising creates low quality
5. Premium content is quality
6. When privacy isn’t an issue/concern, it enables trust and quality
7. Customers > Users

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Kevin Rose

1. Go build it – must be about passion not $
2. Build + Release
   • 3-5 items you can kill at
   • learn from what your users do, not what you think they’ll do
3. Hire hustlers, people that will run circles around you
4. Beg, borrow, steal as long as possible
5. Go cheap, part time A players
6. Connect w/ your audience
7. Hack the press, invite only, junior bloggers, attend parties for events you can’t afford
8. Advisors
9. Analyze your traffic

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Dave McClure

Understand the PROBLEM
NOT Solution

You get a text message from a number you don’t know saying something that immediately sounds off your internal spam alarm. You don’t know how these spammers got your number and feel helpless as to how to prevent it in the future. You personally can’t do much which is why you should report it to your carrier. They can do more to put up spam filters like the ones email providers have. Here is how to report unwanted SMS messages to AT&T on your iPhone:

1.  Copy the unwanted spam message. 

   
    

2. Send it to SPAM (7726) which is free of charge and won’t count against your monthly total of messages.
    
   
3.  Reply with the offending sender’s number.

   

That’s it! You can optionally add SPAM to your contacts to make it easier to send to next time, which hopefully won’t be as often thanks to you being proactive about reporting these unwanted messages.