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Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by Finbarr »

benrmatthews wrote: post #23
pouta wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said a lot. But after opening the link It kinda got scary

Yep, here's the full list: Eyeota The Trade Desk Rocket Fuel Dstillery Aggregate Knowledge Tapad BlueKai DoubleClick.Net AppNexus Neustar AdAdvisor eXelate Connexity Google Universal Analytics Datalogix Lotame Crowd Control New Relic comScore Rapleaf Cross Pixel OwnerIQ Signal

Are you really seeing all that loading on the site? Where are you located? The only tracking code being included by us is Google Analytics. There are 4 youtube embeds on the page too that could be loading in some other code.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by beambot »

estsauver wrote: post #13
saycheese wrote: post #11

>> "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-...

They're not a nonprofit. You're obviously free to release whatever helpful startup materials you would like to the world, and I'm sure that YC would be quite appreciative of their being more wonderful startups existing in the world as a result.

> They're not a nonprofit.

For-profit & permissive licensing aren't mutually exclusive. For-profits can release their material with permissible licenses too.

I think the parent's criticisms are valid. Consider YC's corporate mission [1]:

> Our mission is to enable the most innovation of any company in the world in order to make the future great for everyone.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/2017-yc-annual-letter

It would stand to reason that many more people around the world could benefit from free course materials (as in freedom, not beer). The choice to make materials nonfree will significantly limit their distribution and derivative works, thereby reducing the amount of innovation enabled, and contradicting their own "enable maximum innovation" mission statement.

EDIT: And now sandslash has confirmed that Creative Commons is the ultimate intent. Clearly YC intends to remain consistent with it's core principles. I applaud them!

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by greenhatman »

kintamanimatt wrote: post #8
ThomPete wrote: post #7

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.

Yea, I see it more as inspiration or a catalyst.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by sandslash »

saycheese wrote: post #11

>> "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-...

Apologies for that, we were still in the process of drafting a Terms of Use when we put up the site. That will be updated shortly to have more information. We plan on releasing our content under the Creative Commons license similar to Sam's previous Startup Class.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by saycheese »

sandslash wrote: post #34
saycheese wrote: post #11

>> "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-...

Apologies for that, we were still in the process of drafting a Terms of Use when we put up the site. That will be updated shortly to have more information. We plan on releasing our content under the Creative Commons license similar to Sam's previous Startup Class.

Thanks for the update, glad to hear YC is going to address the issue and that a terms of service will be added too; adding privacy policy would also be nice.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by aptwebapps »

Finbarr wrote: post #27
benrmatthews wrote: post #9

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.

We are absolutely not going to be advertising on the site. I'm not sure where the tracking is coming from but am looking into it. Also, I think that information is out of date. The Startup School Conference site has been moved to here: http://conference.startupschool.org . The new site is built with Ruby on Rails, React and Semantic UI.

I think GP meant advertising FOR the site, not ON it.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by sandslash »

ThomPete wrote: post #7

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.

Absolutely agree with you here. Our aim here is not to make people better entrepreneurs, but rather to share our experiences and learnings in hopes of guiding entrepreneurs on their way to building their company.

Like previous commenters have mentioned, much of the advice/content is bound to be readily available online, and nothing replaces firsthand experience. However, we believe that in this environment, founders will be able to glean some new insight through advisory sessions and group office hours.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by [deleted] »

ThomPete wrote: post #7

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.

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Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by aptwebapps »

benrmatthews wrote: post #23
pouta wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You said a lot. But after opening the link It kinda got scary

Yep, here's the full list: Eyeota The Trade Desk Rocket Fuel Dstillery Aggregate Knowledge Tapad BlueKai DoubleClick.Net AppNexus Neustar AdAdvisor eXelate Connexity Google Universal Analytics Datalogix Lotame Crowd Control New Relic comScore Rapleaf Cross Pixel OwnerIQ Signal

How do they calculate that? Chrome Network dev tool just shows Google/Youtube/Doubleclick resources.

Re: Startup School – YC’s Online Class

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Post by Finbarr »

aptwebapps wrote: post #36
Finbarr wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are absolutely not going to be advertising on the site. I'm not sure where the tracking is coming from but am looking into it. Also, I think that information is out of date. The Startup School Conference site has been moved to here: http://conference.startupschool.org . The new site is built with Ruby on Rails, React and Semantic UI.

I think GP meant advertising FOR the site, not ON it.

Ah. We're not going to be advertising FOR it either. I'm mostly just surprised as we haven't intentionally added any advertising tracking code to the site.
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