YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
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YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
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#2Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!
Re: YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
#3Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!
love the streak concept, also enjoyed it at pioneer on individual level
looking fwd to startup school & sharing with a few friends starting out!
Re: YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
#4Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!
What were your initial expectations for Startup School? Where do you see Startup School in 2030?
Thank you for this work, I've gained interesting and profitable lessons from the program.
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#5Glad to see you guys doing this, let’s see how this changes the future of startups! My feeling is that YC was always AA baseball and now it’s a lot more like the big leagues.
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#6I was in the first version of the MOOC and it was better for me meeting the same people over the duration of the time (currently I believe you interact with different groups each time?).
I found it both interesting seeing how people had evolved during the programme as well as not wanting to let people down by being late or not attending.
I would suggest using some kind of Karma to improve the experience while still keeping the people you meet freeform.
1) Meet the same people over 4 weeks (say) for accountability
2) Attendance, Reports, Progress, Peer feedback etc. can be factored in
3) After the 4 weeks you are matched against people who are at your level of attendance/motivation/productivity/peer review etc. and a new set of group office hours is started.
Anyway, this would help me better to be more accountable, while job, family, hobbies friends etc. get in the way.
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#7Can we also get (I mean this respectfully) a specific answer from YCombinator on who exactly hosts the news.ycombinator.com website?
It appears to be the little heard of and quite hard to track down "M5 Security Solutions" also known as "M5 Hosting". What is strange is they do say they do private hosting for the Department of Defense. Can we get an expansion on that relationship? Thank you.
Re: YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
#8Awesome news. If you haven't done startup school, I'd highly recommend it. We got paired with lots of people from our local city (which surprised me since I didn't know there was this much activity around here).
Seriously startup school is great. Cannot recommend participating enough.
And also: do it no matter what stage you are at. Full disclosure: the project that our team was working has been put on hold by us[1] (and going through SuS helped us realize we might be chasing the wrong thing), BUT the experience of going through it pushed me towards working much harder on a project which had previously just been on autopilot.
[1]We'll probably pick it back up eventually.
Re: YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program
#9Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!
What were your initial expectations for Startup School? Where do you see Startup School in 2030? Thank you for this work, I've gained interesting and profitable lessons from the program.
Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we've seen over 100k users sign up in the last two years), and has vastly exceeded expectations on the latter. Concretely, in the latest YC core batch 44% of founders are Startup School alums. That's a far higher percentage than we were expecting at this point!
In 2030: no idea! Directionally though, I'd like to migrate all the "scalable" parts of YC (1-to-many lectures/writing, investor/founder matching, community, accountability) to Startup School where they'll be freely available to everyone, while leaving the unscalable parts (eg. 1-to-1 advice with partners, big checks) in the core program.
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What were your initial expectations for Startup School? Where do you see Startup School in 2030? Thank you for this work, I've gained interesting and profitable lessons from the program.
Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we've seen over 100k users sign up in the last two years), and has vastly exceeded expectations on the latter. Concretely, in the latest YC core batch 44% of founders are Startup School alums.…
Wow, that's really an impressive idea (VCaaS?). Thanks for your response.