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Really, is this the best YC is able to do?
Truly interested in knowingly why the course is not released under something like one of the Creative Commons licenses:
https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-...
>> "All rights reserved." Really, is this the best YC is able to do? Truly interested in knowingly why the course is not released under something like one of the Creative Commons licenses: https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-...
This is great, however I don't believe it will make you a better entrepreneur. To me at least the only thing I ever learned from was doing it and make my own experience which often would if not contradict what I read about then at least illustrate that nothing beats doing.
I guess the idea isn't to teach people how to be an awesome entrepreneur, but to point them in a good direction so they can earn the experience they need to be an awesome entrepreneur.
> Build a community of entrepreneurs who can encourage and teach each other Working towards the mentioned goal can start right here on HN by adding a navbar link titled "MOOC" like what YC did with "Apply HN". I am curious to know if YC considered involving the HN community directly like they did with the Fellowship. I remember the whole controversy involving pinboard and YC receiving a lot of flak for it, but I hope…
This is great, however I don't believe it will make you a better entrepreneur. To me at least the only thing I ever learned from was doing it and make my own experience which often would if not contradict what I read about then at least illustrate that nothing beats doing.
Lots of analytics, advertising and tracking being used on the site: https://builtwith.com/www.startupschool.org Expecting to see lots of ads for this appearing soon.
I'm very optimistic about this program, but I also wonder how much of the success of the main program and the fellowship can be scaled into a MOOC. I was part of YCF1 as AirPaper, and while I think it was an incredibly valuable experience, most of the things the YC partners told us we're things that we "knew." Most of the advice was available in one essay or another, but it still felt very, very different to have one…
This is really what will make a difference, that is building a network of mentors that are doing one-on-one mentoring under the same process guided by the same culture. YC should really have a 3rd option, that being to sign-up to become a "certified" mentor.
This is great, however I don't believe it will make you a better entrepreneur. To me at least the only thing I ever learned from was doing it and make my own experience which often would if not contradict what I read about then at least illustrate that nothing beats doing.
There's a balance to be had between theory & practice, exclusive doing one or the other will likely produce suboptimal results. Ideally, you'd focus on execution and dynamically get intuitive meaningful feedback as you went.
The rest see an opportunity and hire the financial, legal and technical and other advice they need.