YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course

Post by anoncoward111 » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:16 PM UTC

ryanlitalien wrote: post #90

DenisM wrote: post #77

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>30 minute 1-1s with us once a month Was that actually useful? I can't imagine them understanding (or remembering) anything about your company in that little time.

You had to essentially come to the meeting with a specific problem to focus on. For us it went like: * A quick status update on what we've accomplished since the last meeting, some back and forth. * Discuss the main problem we're working on. (For example: "We're stuck on how to improve our inbound traffic") * Talk about next steps or deliverables for the next meeting. (For example: Try to acquire 10% more users) It w…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:56 PM UTC

adora wrote: post #60

nathcd wrote: post #57

It looks like the "What is your most impressive accomplishment?" question on the application has a max length of 60 characters. I can understand it needing to be short, but that seems really short. I'm having a tough time trying to slice and dice a sentence to fit.

Oops, good point. We'll change that soon. Will update here once done. Edit: good to go now.

Post by srcmap » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:08 PM UTC

wasd wrote: post #85

DenisM wrote: post #77

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>30 minute 1-1s with us once a month Was that actually useful? I can't imagine them understanding (or remembering) anything about your company in that little time.

We did the first batch of Startup School. We had mandatory N to 1 meetings. Those weren't that useful for us (it felt like we were a bit further ahead than other companies) but a few companies got a lot of value out of it. Our optional 1-1 were insanely useful. Our mentor was a yc alum saas cofounder. He was took notes and saw our homework every week. His perspective was priceless and there weren't many problems we w…

Post by legionof7 » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

sandslash wrote: post #98

legionof7 wrote: post #69

Is it just me or does the Add Picture button not work? I tried both Firefox and Chrome.

Looking into it!

Post by bambax » Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 6:36 PM UTC