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Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute

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Re: Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute

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Dear friends on Hacker News,

DO NOT worry about the 1000 person limit. We'll release more codes if we need to. You are all welcome :). I'm a huge fan of HN. Just please enjoy the course - we spent a lot of time convincing the Founder Institute to release these videos and I hope you like them.

Best, Gagan Biyani

Co-Founder of Udemy gaganATudemyDOTcom

Re: Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute

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First off I feel as though I dont know much about how a startup works yet. Im trying to learn so I could eventually launch something in the future. Watching the first video "Holy shit , my idea sucks" around the 15:30 mark or if you look at the slides, its slide 11, the guy says that an idea "Must be NEW or BETTER". How true is that? Why MUST it be (only) one of those two? I was reading one of 37 signals books' "Rewo…

We were a Founder Institute company and I thought the Founder Institute sessions were extremely valuable. Those videos are very informative - the people teaching them have all had a major success in their startup careers. Aaron did Mint.com, Adeo has started 8 companies, Phil is CEO of Evernote.

Gagan

Re: Free Online Crash Course in Startups from The Founder Institute

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post #8

First off I feel as though I dont know much about how a startup works yet. Im trying to learn so I could eventually launch something in the future. Watching the first video "Holy shit , my idea sucks" around the 15:30 mark or if you look at the slides, its slide 11, the guy says that an idea "Must be NEW or BETTER". How true is that? Why MUST it be (only) one of those two? I was reading one of 37 signals books' "Rewo…

Go through phil's talk he covered how you can work on 'simplification' of existing ideas, example he has given is video camera.
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