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Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by ThomPete »

saycheese wrote: post #26
ThomPete wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Each to their own of course and I have no scientific evidence to back this up but my guess is that only a fraction who ever become successful entrepreneurs take courses in entrepreneurism. The rest see an opportunity and hire the financial, legal and technical and other advice they need.

Real value of the course is the opportunity to get one-on-one sessions with experienced mentors; my guess is that the majority of successful founders have received advice that was crucial to their success.

The value of that meeting is network not mentoring IMO. Building a company is mostly a freeform exercise, where the elements which become part of your success are really subtle.

IMO what you will find the most is that luck has a proportionally large part to do with your success.

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Post by ChicagoBoy11 »

I was laughed off of HN when I suggested a few years ago that YC was en route to becoming the world's first true 21st century university.

Applying pg's question of "What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of" to YC itself, the answer to me has always been a modern university. From the regular cohorts, to nascent investment in basic research, to residential component, to doing things that make a big impact on the world, to being highly profitable (yes, elite higher ed. is a fantastic business), always seemed to me that all the ingredients were there.

This is yet another small step in that direction.

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Post by ThomPete »

sandslash wrote: post #37
ThomPete wrote: post #7

This is great, however I don't believe it will make you a better entrepreneur. To me at least the only thing I ever learned from was doing it and make my own experience which often would if not contradict what I read about then at least illustrate that nothing beats doing.

Absolutely agree with you here. Our aim here is not to make people better entrepreneurs, but rather to share our experiences and learnings in hopes of guiding entrepreneurs on their way to building their company. Like previous commenters have mentioned, much of the advice/content is bound to be readily available online, and nothing replaces firsthand experience. However, we believe that in this environment, founders…

And I will be watching it :)

I just I am just in general of the believe that other peoples experience as entrepreneurs are mostly fascinating tales from those who ventured rather than useful information, it's just too complex and fast moving for it to be educational (unless your like to study entrepreneurial history :) )

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

benrmatthews wrote: post #23
pouta wrote: post #10

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You said a lot. But after opening the link It kinda got scary

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BuiltWith contains data about both the current and past usage of services gathered from scraping the page, but also from a bunch of other (not always) reliable sources.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by elmar »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #42

I was laughed off of HN when I suggested a few years ago that YC was en route to becoming the world's first true 21st century university. Applying pg's question of "What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of" to YC itself, the answer to me has always been a modern university. From the regular cohorts, to nascent investment in basic research, to residential component, to doing things that make a big impact on the worl…

I share your view, I think that halfway on the journey PG realized this potential and even talks about YC as a new type of educational organization on some of is texts.

It's great to be here at this point in time and see it unfold.

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Post by yurisagalov »

ChicagoBoy11 wrote: post #42

I was laughed off of HN when I suggested a few years ago that YC was en route to becoming the world's first true 21st century university. Applying pg's question of "What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of" to YC itself, the answer to me has always been a modern university. From the regular cohorts, to nascent investment in basic research, to residential component, to doing things that make a big impact on the worl…

You would be happy to know that in fact I believe PG has said as much himself :)

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/sam-altman-taking-over-as-...

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