YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program

Post by spenvo » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 8:55 PM UTC

dapole wrote: post #41

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Oh getting paired with locals is very cool! I did it a couple years ago, and it was worth it -- but I wish some in my group had been from around my city, Austin. My project ended up shipping ( https://www.currentkey.com ), and it was nice to be accountable to a few other people through an important stretch and have regular reality checks. I'd strongly consider doing this again for my next project (a mobile game), esp…

I think it’s more of creating a LLC is such a low threshold that it shows you haven’t seriously thought about your business and the liability that can occur if you release without a corporate entity for your own protection.

Post by thomasrognon » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

spenvo wrote: post #36

blhack wrote: post #8

Awesome news. If you haven't done startup school, I'd highly recommend it. We got paired with lots of people from our local city (which surprised me since I didn't know there was this much activity around here). Seriously startup school is great. Cannot recommend participating enough. And also: do it no matter what stage you are at. Full disclosure: the project that our team was working has been put on hold by us[1]…

Oh getting paired with locals is very cool! I did it a couple years ago, and it was worth it -- but I wish some in my group had been from around my city, Austin. My project ended up shipping ( https://www.currentkey.com ), and it was nice to be accountable to a few other people through an important stretch and have regular reality checks. I'd strongly consider doing this again for my next project (a mobile game), esp…

Post by spenvo » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

thomasrognon wrote: post #44

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Oh getting paired with locals is very cool! I did it a couple years ago, and it was worth it -- but I wish some in my group had been from around my city, Austin. My project ended up shipping ( https://www.currentkey.com ), and it was nice to be accountable to a few other people through an important stretch and have regular reality checks. I'd strongly consider doing this again for my next project (a mobile game), esp…

I'm working on a startup ( https://www.cloudternal.com ) in Austin. If you want to connect, my email is in my profile.

Post by kcorbitt » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 11:29 PM UTC

csteubs wrote: post #38

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So happy to hear you had a great experience! We've added a new concept of "company stage" to improve the relevance of curriculum content and group session matches, hopefully that will make your point of "do it no matter what stage you are at" even more true. :)

Would you consider adding a feature to clear past metrics from the charts on /updates? I signed up for the SUS 2018 course with a startup that looked very different from my current project, so my metrics these days look like a bunch of primary-colored snakes chasing some dots.

Post by aychtang » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 11:45 PM UTC

kcorbitt wrote: post #49

chirau wrote: post #40

So if we graduated SUS in already do we get the Startup School Certified status or we have to go through the program again?

You'll need to start again, because the way we're tracking things changed. That said, if you've been submitting updates consistently those will count towards certification, and if you go through and mark all the content you already viewed as complete you'll be most of the way there already.