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Re: Startup School 2017 Presentations

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I recommend the program to anyone thinking about starting a startup. The highlight was having live mentorship from very successful startup founders. My mentor had raised tens of millions in VC funding for his startup. He spent 2 hours with us every week.

My presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/242

Re: Startup School 2017 Presentations

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From what I can tell, YC Startup School's first batch had 10K applicants, 3K accepted companies and 800 graduates presenting. It was very helpful for us (MoQuality) and seems like a huge success overall. Thanks YC! :) PS: Our presentation: https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/536

even considering that some companies have decided to not make a public presentation less than 30% graduating rate (3K to ~800) seens to be very low.

We're actually at a 56% graduation rate. Many companies opted to not make a video for various reasons, including wanting to remain in stealth or they felt they were too early.

Re: Startup School 2017 Presentations

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I like the sense that I can get a broad overview of what is out there and what the market looks like by seeing such a large sample of successful companies. How do you guys pick the categories? I ask because some categories are largbe (B2B) and there seems to be a lot of overlap. (i.e. what if there is a B2B company that is also a developer tool?) There are also some categories that I cannot find. There isn't, for ins…

For the first version of Startup School, we stuck with pretty broad categories, just to keep it simple. However, we do plan to make these categories more granular in the future.

Re: Startup School 2017 Presentations

#18
We didn't do a video because we felt we were too early (we probably should have done one anyway). We're making a platform for "bite-sized learning", starting with daily email courses.

We don't have the platform ready yet, but if you want to learn React.js, check out our first course: (it's free!) https://nanohop.com/react-daily-emails/

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