How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
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How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
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Re: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
#2"That’s why each lecture will be available via YouTube and iTunes Connect shortly after they happen, and associated reading materials and assignments will be linked to on the course site. To keep in touch with others following along with the lectures from afar, there will be a forum and Facebook group available to discuss their content and provide further opportunities to learn from those involved in startups."
So, not quite a MOOC, but still pretty close. I wonder if this is the MVP for scaling YC beyond the individual batches.
Re: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
#3Do all of these people actually come in to Stanford to teach the class? I can't even imagine having a class instructor list like this.
Re: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
#4Do all of these people actually come in to Stanford to teach the class? I can't even imagine having a class instructor list like this.
yes, they are. all of these will be recorded and available online same-day. we'll also post all other material (readings, etc). it should be pretty good--i really tried hard to get the very best people i know on each topic.
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#5This is an amazing recruiting tool for YC and is a page out of JOEL SPOLSKY's book:
"So if the top 1 percent never apply for jobs (aka get startup funding), how can you recruit them? My theory is that the best way is to find them before they realize there is a job market (aka startup funding)--back when they're still in college."[0]
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#6"That’s why each lecture will be available via YouTube and iTunes Connect shortly after they happen, and associated reading materials and assignments will be linked to on the course site. To keep in touch with others following along with the lectures from afar, there will be a forum and Facebook group available to discuss their content and provide further opportunities to learn from those involved in startups." So, n…
The batches are the secret sauce. (Well, not that secret.) Doing YC without the batches would be a very impressive feat to pull off. It would turn the piston driven machine they have now into the equivalent of a turbine.
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#7i hope blake masters will take notes.
Re: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
#8Do all of these people actually come in to Stanford to teach the class? I can't even imagine having a class instructor list like this.
yes, they are. all of these will be recorded and available online same-day. we'll also post all other material (readings, etc). it should be pretty good--i really tried hard to get the very best people i know on each topic.
Very cool. Maybe a talk about bootstrapping as well in the TBA slots? There are many entrepreneurship paths.
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#9"That’s why each lecture will be available via YouTube and iTunes Connect shortly after they happen, and associated reading materials and assignments will be linked to on the course site. To keep in touch with others following along with the lectures from afar, there will be a forum and Facebook group available to discuss their content and provide further opportunities to learn from those involved in startups." So, n…
The batches are the secret sauce. (Well, not that secret.) Doing YC without the batches would be a very impressive feat to pull off. It would turn the piston driven machine they have now into the equivalent of a turbine.
The people are the secret sauce. Specifically, the people at YC who know everyone worth knowing in the valley. You join YC for their rolodex; nothing else they do is that different from any other accelerator.
Not that YC doesn't add value (they do; especially in companies with very raw founders) but Silicon Valley is all about who you know. That's a lot of value right there.
Re: How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014
#10Marginally related: Anyone know when startup school invitations go out? I believe the application deadline was last week.