Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Can you make last year's lectures available for everyone?
YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
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#42The course seems rather no-strings-attached. For example, it mentions that the most promising companies will get $10K of "equity-free funding" as well as other goodies. Appeals to altruism aside, what's Y Combinator's incentive here? Is the hope that companies will feel loyalty to YC, and join the core program?
I think that going through this program and receiving $10K of equity free funding would substantially increase the chances of a company sticking with YC.
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#43Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Hi Adora, can two members of the same company each sign-up or should all members of the company go under one account? Thank you!
Only one member needs to sign up the company, and at the end of the sign up process, s/he is asked to provide their co-founders emails to invite.
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#44Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Hello!
I’m extremely interested in founding and launching a startup, but don’t necessarily have one established yet. Is there any way to audit the online course’s content?
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#45I didn't take it as a true 'course' last year but incidentally watched a lot of the lectures -- heard some really genuinely novel perspectives that aren't as self-evident as a lot of startup education ~seems~ nowadays, so i'm excited to see how the course has evolved!
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#46Anyone who tried this course last year, can you please share your thoughts on this course and * why should we take this course? * what have you achieved after taking this course? * did it help you build/finish your startup?
> why should we take this course?
1) Content - learn a lot from lectures
2) Accountability - office hours will hold you to your goals and keep you making progress
3) Mentorship - Experienced founders and office hours mates will help you make sure that you are working on the right problems in the most efficient way.
4) Community - it's inspiring and energizing to be around founders in a similar position as you. Plus, it can give you early users and customers. (Our first customers were through Startup School).
> what have you achieved after taking this course?
My co-founder and I make enough profit to live on our business while traveling full-time.
> did it help you build/finish your startup?
Yes. And, I want to participate again this year. Our 2017 problems were building the right product. Our 2018 problems are navigating product/market fit and growth.
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#47Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.
Hello! I’m extremely interested in founding and launching a startup, but don’t necessarily have one established yet. Is there any way to audit the online course’s content?
Yep, there's an option for that on the registration flow: https://www.startupschool.org/register
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi Adora, can two members of the same company each sign-up or should all members of the company go under one account? Thank you!
Only one member needs to sign up the company, and at the end of the sign up process, s/he is asked to provide their co-founders emails to invite.
Great, thank you for the help!
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#49I am developing a finance tech, full stack app, solo. This would probably be fantastic, but the time/money commitment is >Not working my 9-5 job that pays 2k/week >Not obsessively working on my app after work 4hr/night 5 + 12hr 2= 44 hours/week of not programming Im sure its a great opportunity, but I am unsure if its the better decision. I already have a community that visits Efficiency Is Everything, I already can…
We totally understand that founders may have other commitments that are more important than their nascent company. That's one of the main reasons we started Startup School, and kept it completely remote. The program itself only has two requirements: that you are working on a startup (PT or FT) and that you're able to commit ~3 hours a week of to watch the lectures and attend office hours.
That isnt bad at all. I will re-read the article and consider it. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
Re: YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
#50The course seems rather no-strings-attached. For example, it mentions that the most promising companies will get $10K of "equity-free funding" as well as other goodies. Appeals to altruism aside, what's Y Combinator's incentive here? Is the hope that companies will feel loyalty to YC, and join the core program?
YC already invests $1M worth of human capital to put on Startup School. Whatever their original motivation is to do it, it's worth another $1M to do it better.