Really excited for this!
YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
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#22A CENTER FOR ANTS???
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#23IMO, there needs to be a bootstrapping track. Perhaps the bootstrapping track should even be the primary one. Of course YC won't do this, but IMHO, bootstrapping leads to the best chance for young people to quickly become millionaires.
We've talked about this, and may build a track that officially targets this in the future. That said, with the exception of two pieces of content that talk about applying to YC, one piece about understanding SAFE financing, and perhaps part of our video about pitching your startup, really everything else we talk about is the right advice whether you're planning on bootstrapping or raising VC. Learning to build someth…
Definitely finding the right thing to make and then finding product-market fit are the same, but bootstrapping necessarily limits your choices to products/services that are profitable early on rather than after burning millions to capture market share. Bootstrapping also, in my opinion and experience, requires a lot more appreciation of accounting and finance on the part of founders, and a lot more questioning ("do I really need to hire another person for this or can I find a way to keep costs down?"). I can definitely see a different curriculum and skillset building that is separate from the VC track.
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#24OT the title as written by the submitter (“YC Startup School for future founders who aren’t quite ready to start yet”) reminds me a bit of Zoolander
Anyway, the program sounds very interesting and it’s nice to see that YC is caring about people who want to start something but don’t yet know what they want to start.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
After submitting your basic user information, it should ask whether you're joining as an active founder or a future founder. If you select "Future Founder", you won't be asked to complete a company profile. If you accidentally selected the wrong track, you can update your selection at https://www.startupschool.org/track . Hope that makes sense! EDIT: to those still running into issues here, the workarounds others hav…
Every time I try to sign up it just takes me to step 4/4, with no way to go back. I’m on mobile.
Same as you here.
Just Invent some non sense there, and when you are inside, you can go to "My profile" > Choose Track, and choose "Future Founder"
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#26I'd like to register for the course, but it asks me to complete information about my company. Surely, if I was only thinking of starting a startup and had not already started one I wouldn't have that information to provide. So, I'm not entirely sure how to complete the registration other than just making stuff up.
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#27Re: YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given how many people are unemployed, I would say a problem in the USA (and probably all developed nations with few exceptions) today is that not enough people start companies. Too many employees, not enough employers. That said, most people are better suited to starting a small business than a venture financed business. And the former employ vastly more people.
I agree but find it's more a capital and cultural problem to solve. Too many people don't have the financial tolerance for the risk, and too many people with it are too afraid to put it into new ventures.
I think it's school. It teaches you to be a good and compliant little worker drone from a young age. It does not encourage an entrepreneurial mindset.
By the time people are adults the mindset is entrenched.
Re: YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
#29OT the title as written by the submitter (“YC Startup School for future founders who aren’t quite ready to start yet”) reminds me a bit of Zoolander Anyway, the program sounds very interesting and it’s nice to see that YC is caring about people who want to start something but don’t yet know what they want to start.
> reminds me a bit of Zoolander
Thanks for the laugh. :)
Taking that theme further, here's an an extension to that title I came up with:
"YC Startup School for future founders who aren’t quite ready to start yet and who want to start in the future too"
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've talked about this, and may build a track that officially targets this in the future. That said, with the exception of two pieces of content that talk about applying to YC, one piece about understanding SAFE financing, and perhaps part of our video about pitching your startup, really everything else we talk about is the right advice whether you're planning on bootstrapping or raising VC. Learning to build someth…
Definitely finding the right thing to make and then finding product-market fit are the same, but bootstrapping necessarily limits your choices to products/services that are profitable early on rather than after burning millions to capture market share. Bootstrapping also, in my opinion and experience, requires a lot more appreciation of accounting and finance on the part of founders, and a lot more questioning ("do I…
The problem is that YC-type opportunities are limited to those living in maybe 3 cities. Most places in the world do not have the funding opportunities. Shaping the narrative such that YC-style incubation is the "default" only benefits YC so they will have an increasingly large pool of applicants where they can pick the cream of the crop. This does not serve founders well as they would be wasting their time networking to nowhere when instead they should be building and selling.