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Stanford's new course on building a startup

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Re: Stanford's new course on building a startup

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Post by Fomite »

The title and description are somewhat at odds. "Startup Engineering", the title, makes sense - the kind of things a certain breed of startup are looking for in software engineers.

On the other hand, "Stanford's new course on building a startup from the ground up" offers only one week for "Promotion, CAC/LTV/Funnel, Regulation and Accounting" - things that are a little bit important for building a business.

And by "startup" this clearly only applies to a certain breed. If you wanted to start a Biotech startup (as a random example), the class is nigh useless.

It's a way narrower course than some of the descriptions suggest.

Re: Stanford's new course on building a startup

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Post by biot »

xtqctz wrote: post #6
jdale27 wrote: post #2

"startup" == "SaaS web startup", apparently.

Can you expand this critique? I'm a recent grad with the prerequisite knowledge they ask for (barely) and aspirations to build cool stuff. Is my time better spent elsewhere? If so, where?

If the cool stuff you want to build includes things like alternative energy sources (solar, wind, wave, and so on) then 90% of the course will be of little benefit to you. However, if your definition of cool stuff can be boiled down to "software on the internet" then this course will likely be helpful.
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