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Startup School - A free online program and global community for founders

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Startup School is a free program designed for any startup founder who would like guidance through the most difficult challenges of starting a company. We’re excited to announce that Startup School is relaunching today as a continuous program.

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Joan DeGennaro
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Joan, the Community Manager for Startup School at YC. Today, we relaunched Startup School as a continuous program. This way, we can support founders year round instead of once a year. As part of this relaunch, we also completely redesigned our curriculum to include both recorded lectures and written content, and personalized the required lectures to reflect the company’s stage (i.e. idea, launch, or growth). We also know the importance of community when starting a startup; for the relaunch, we’re providing exclusive forums for later-stage companies and improving the matching algorithm used for our weekly small-group video calls. Please feel free to ask questions or share your feedback. Our team is here, and we're so excited!
Mike Mahlkow
@theriodegennaro Really hyped for this! How do you think teams can get the most out of it? Want to share best practices with the friends I will recommend it to. Is it mostly about being active on there and using it regularly?
Joan DeGennaro
Maker
@mikemahlkow Awesome - glad to hear it! I'd recommend taking the time to watch/read the curriculum material on a regular basis. If you have cofounder, you can discuss it afterward. Then, getting into the habit of submitting weekly updates and setting goals to revisit during each group session will likely do a lot to keep your team accountable to making trackable progress.
Catheryn Li
Maker
Hi everyone! I'm Cat, Product Engineer on Startup School. Super excited to share this new program with you all :) SUS is 69% international (non-US) today and we can't wait to make entrepreneurship accessible to even more founders!
Mike Mahlkow
@catheryn This looks amazing!! Thanks for what you are doing for the global community. I know for a fact how many people will benefit from access to this. 'How to start a startup' inspired so many of my friends. I think this can do even more!
Catheryn Li
Maker
@mikemahlkow Thanks for the support! Would love to see your friends join the SUS community :)
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
Really excited to share this with the world! Happy to answer questions about how the program works or how we built it.
Kyle Corbitt
Maker
@kotartemiy unfortunately we're still using the same system. All the WebRTC offerings have pretty similar performance characteristics in my testing. We may switch to Zoom long-term but their API isn't for the faint of heart so we haven't gotten to it yet.
Rajiv Reddy
@kotartemiy Sounds like a startup opportunity to me... IIRC Stripe started because all other payment systems were not developer friendly :P
Phil Hedayatnia
This is so amazing -- really impressed by y'alls commitment to making resources like this open and accessible to all. As a founder who (originally) hailed from the Midwest, I'm especially excited congrats @catheryn + co!
Joan DeGennaro
Maker
@catheryn @philhedayatnia Thanks Phil! It's true, SUS was reaching founders remotely even before sheltering in place made it the new normal...
Matthew Johnson
Wow, congrats @theriodegennaro and team! Startup School has been super valuable for us, and the new look is great. I have been doing my updates regularly and it is so useful having to log in week after week to share those metrics. Excited to keep using it.
Catheryn Li
Maker
@theriodegennaro @mattcrail So happy to hear that! We hope you'll get even more out of it with continued group sessions paired with those weekly updates :)
Matthew Johnson
@theriodegennaro @catheryn just booked my group session for this week 👍
Alyssia Jovellanos
Congrats Catheryn and Joan! I've watched a couple YC Startup School lectures on Youtube and have been patiently waiting for this to open up officially. Thank you for your commitment in making these resources so accessible. + thank you Catheryn for originally letting my know that this would be starting in June :)
Catheryn Li
Maker
@alyssiajovella So happy you're signing up! I can't wait to see how your startup goes :)
Sumit Datta [dwata] 👋
Hey everyone, I have been doing Startup School since 2018 (maybe even the 17 batch). It is a great resource and for someone with as many failures as I do, it is a place to keep learning. The community there is a bit slow, but I am sure that will improve now that YC has decided to change how SUS works. @theriodegennaro is here on PH too and I hope the large ground of founders on Startup School helps create a pool of peers for problem solving, brainstorming, etc. Also co-founder matching if that is something people want. Happy shipping!
Joan DeGennaro
Maker
@sumitdatta Appreciate the support for SUS! We hope you'll continue to be a part of the community!
Dmitry Begovatov
Great chance for entrepreneurs all over the world! Thank you
Catheryn Li
Maker
@begovatovd1 Our hope is to empower global founders and make entrepreneurship more accessible to everyone! Thanks for the support :)
Greg Zen at StartupHeroics.com
Awesome! I think it's great you are opening it up year round now. I attended and did free mentoring for SUS founders both of the last two cohorts and it's been a great experience. Loads of gold education in the content and the community can be a very powerful place. Kudos! Are YC's main accelerator batches going to stay remote for the time being or plans to move back yet?
Joan DeGennaro
Maker
@mrgregzen Thanks for being a part of the SUS community! YC's current batch is remote, and we'll have to see how the world looks before the next one.
Matt Cool
Signed up and just completed my 1st weekly check in. Fun stuff!
Joan DeGennaro
Maker
@matt_cool That's awesome! Hard to ask for anything more than that on a launch day. Looking forward to having you in the SUS community!
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