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Re: YC Changes

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Post by sama »

inputcoffee wrote: post #8

You buried the lede: a YC MOOC! I always felt that onemonth.com basically was the YC MOOC. (It is funded by YC, and you see the themes of user first, user research, growth etc running through it). Not sure if anyone else here knows what I mean. Will the MOOC be free?

Yes, it will be free.

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inputcoffee wrote: post #8

You buried the lede: a YC MOOC! I always felt that onemonth.com basically was the YC MOOC. (It is funded by YC, and you see the themes of user first, user research, growth etc running through it). Not sure if anyone else here knows what I mean. Will the MOOC be free?

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Post by ncd »

Michael was one of our group partners during S16, and I cannot think of a person better suited for this position than him. He consistently demonstrated the ability to cut through all of the nonsense founders tried to use to defend their actions (ourselves included) and delivered fantastic insights into our businesses to which we were blinded.

For me, the group partners were the primary value delivered by YC during the program, and I look forward to that value being continued under Michael's leadership. Congratulations!

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Post by gist »

lasryaric wrote: post #6
davmar wrote: post #5

ok.

Every blog post should have a TLDR like this one. TL;DR: Michael Seibel will be the new CEO of YC Core, which we are now just going to call "YC". Ali Rowghani is now the CEO of the YC Continuity Fund. I’m going to be the President of YC Group, which includes Y Combinator, YC Continuity, YC Research, and our new online class. We’ll add more organizational units over time. We’re going to replace the Fellowship with a m…

The use of TL;DR bothers me because the word "summary" is appropriate or even "key points". It's not common use among all groups of people (old timers for example who also could read a blog post) and it really doesn't serve any clear purpose that "summary" does not.

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Post by sama »

jlteran wrote: post #17

Will the MOOC content be in any way different from How to Start a Startup by Sam A. (class taught at Stanford)

Yes, I have a lot of new ideas about how to improve if after teaching that class.

I plan to talk in more detail about it near the end of this year.

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Post by gordon_freeman »

sama wrote: post #11
inputcoffee wrote: post #8

You buried the lede: a YC MOOC! I always felt that onemonth.com basically was the YC MOOC. (It is funded by YC, and you see the themes of user first, user research, growth etc running through it). Not sure if anyone else here knows what I mean. Will the MOOC be free?

Yes, it will be free.

Thanks Sam for making it free and available to all. I am really excited about the upcoming MOOC from YC. Can you share some more details on what kind of content will it have? What is the target audience? etc. Would love to know more about it.
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