Comments on post “Startup School”
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Y Combinator's moving further up the funnel to educate and identify great founders and companies in a semi-scalable way. Super smart.
@sama - In the blog post, it says "At the end of the class, participants will have a chance to share what they’ve built with a wide audience." Is this like a mini-demo day? How will this work?
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Sam Altman
@sama · President, YC
@rrhoover still trying to figure out the exact format, but yes the thought is some sort of mini demo day!
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Muhammad Nasrullah
@nash · VP Engg Convo, Founder Frequel & Pring
@sama this is pretty great but when I try to signup with my email, it keeps submitting. I get this 522 from the server: http://imgur.com/a/t7pDJ
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Muhammad Nasrullah
@nash · VP Engg Convo, Founder Frequel & Pring
Never mind, the form isn't playing nice with AdBlock it appears
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Honey Raj Varma
@raj_ventures · Raj Ventures, R&Ds, Internetechs
@sama @rrhoover Considering this is a MOOC course, people could submit their team's videos online as a start, students could vote for what they really liked. Maybe offer a cool opportunity to a select few? :D
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Horea Burca
@horea4 · Co-Founder, Developer
@rrhoover @sama Right on, signed up! Now it'd better help me out caus you completely stole the show today on PH :) What are the odds I'd launch here the same day as you, man?
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Gavin Esajas
@gavin_esajas · Product Manager
@sama @rrhoover Would be cool to give us a glimpse of the mini demo day as well if you pursue this idea.
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Mohamed Yunus
@tweetyunus · CEO Everyly.
Difference between YC and other ax is others pick founders with just great backgrounds whereas YC picks founders with great character and help them build a great background.
See you soon in S'17.
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Jevin Sew
@jevinsew · Rails / iOS developer
@tweetyunus Love that summary!
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I do like that YC creates lots of interesting content surrounding their platform. This is no exception. I'm sure lots of people will have signed up to this.
Really intrigued to see what is shared at the end too...
Waiting to see the story of "I signed up to Startup School, 6 months later I was accepted into Y Combinator"
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
This is awesome. @sama, for someone who watched your Stanford lectures, what will be the major difference in the new format?
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Sergey Pirogov
@perpetuous · CEO & Founder, wayme (www.wayme.tours)
@kunalslab had the same question.
Here's the answer:
- For a limited group in a special Startup Founder track, we’ll have weekly online advice sessions where you can get feedback on your startup. The advisors are mostly YC alumni, like Daniel Kan (Cruise), Sanjay Dastoor (Boosted Boards), and Cindy Wu (Experiment). We’ll run these like we run group office hours at YC, and may be limited depending on demand and our resources.
- We’ll have an online community via Slack and email where you can connect with other entrepreneurs in the class.
- At the end of the class, participants will have a chance to share what they’ve built with a wide audience.
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
@perpetuous saw that. Thanks! Was also wondering how much of the lecture content will be different.
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David McGraw
@xmcgraw · Founder • Builder • U.S. Marine Veteran
For someone outside of the valley, who really itches to surround him/herself with likeminded founders, this should be epic. I know I appreciate the effort and can't wait to give it a spin! Stay motivated & best wishes!
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
Thanks @xmcgraw. We find that to be a very common itch :) Hopefully this makes it a little easier for founders to connect and interact.
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Deandre Durr☀️
@dredurr · Growth Hacker
@sama Is this an updated version of Startup School?
I remember last listening to the podcast and watching the videos last year
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
@dredurr @sama you can think of it that way. While some of the content will likely overlap, we added a few improvements to make the course more hands-on, including advisors and office hours.
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Bob Senoff
@bobsenoff
@svkpham @dredurr @sama The prior Startup School was terrific and I'm sure having something more current will be even better.
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nick kukoz
@nickkukoz · ceo, go2balance
Thank for your love and generosity. Greatly appreciated to Sam, Finbar, and Steven.
P.s.: Thanks @katmanalac. Motorcycling and shooting skills are getting better.
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Abhilash Jain
@findabhilash · Product Marketing / Growth
This is awesome, love how YC is doing it's bit to get people up to speed for the startups of the future. Big props to you guys.
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
Thanks @findabhilash. Anything we can do to make it easier for people to innovate and solve interesting problems is a win for all of us.
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James Mazza
@james_mazza22 · Co-Founder @TheNewsUnspun
I think the traffic to your signup page has broken your signup form. Seems to me that the signup spot is just constantly loading.
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Finbarr Taylor
@finbarr · Software Engineer at Y Combinator
@james_mazza22 sorry about that. We're getting hammered. If you try again it should work. We'll definitely add some more capacity before opening registration.
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James Mazza
@james_mazza22 · Co-Founder @TheNewsUnspun
@finbarr All set now. Thanks!
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
@finbarr same thing for the conference site too. Good problem to have, I guess!
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Finbarr Taylor
@finbarr · Software Engineer at Y Combinator
@kunalslab thanks! We're looking into it.
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Vitor
@vit05 · tapan.ga
How will be the interaction between the teams and the people who will participate in the classes? Any plans to develop a new tool for discussion, conversation and perhaps new contacts to form new startups or will be encouraged to use tools already available such as Slack, Disqus, HackerNews etc ?
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
@vit05 For this first course we'll be using Slack for discussion and interaction between groups, participants, and advisors.
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Laksman
@laksman · Entrepreneur
@sama this is amazing. I'm wondering, will there be opportunity for solo founders going through this class to pair up and find a co-founder? I could see that as being very useful..
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
@laksman @sama That's definitely one of the things we hope the community we're building will help with!
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Can Olcer
@canolcer · Co-Founder Humbot
@laksman @sama Doesn't this contradict YC's believe that co-founders should know and worked with each other on significant projects before founding a startup?
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James Mazza
@james_mazza22 · Co-Founder @TheNewsUnspun
@JoeyCofone Check this out!
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Zak Kinion
@zak_kinion
This seems like the Udacity style class format, but is YC orientated and actually is taught by people who have successful startup experience. I signed up and am looking forward to it. :)
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Kristian Kabuay
@baybayin · Artist @ Kabuay.com
This is great! Thank you! One thing though is that the term "Startup" sometimes scares people because they think it has a tech angle when in reality, the methodologies can be used for any business. Looking forward to this
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David Smooke
@davidsmooke · Publishing, @AMI
Another step between Hacker News & Venture Investment!
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Lauren
@lsydney33 · Operations & Growth, Bindle
Awesome - I took this course via YC's podcast, "How to Start a Startup," and it was honestly one of the best courses I've taken. Such great content/stories and actionable learnings from some unbelievable guest lecturers. Keith Rabois (on "How to Operate") and Brian Chesky (on how to do things that don't scale) gave two of my favorite lectures. Nice to see YC is promoting this series even more.
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Marcel Panse
@marcelpanse · CTO & cofounder at Instant
@sama as a startup from the EU, what time will the office hours and group sessions be, will we be able to join?
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
@marcelpanse @sama Group sessions will be scheduled by your group advisor -- with your time preferences in mind. We'll help sort by timezones so hopefully that will make it easier.
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Sunil Neurgaonkar
@sneurgaonkar · Genius-Nerd-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist
Something that is needed by many individuals here. 🙌🤓
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Jason Grad
@mrjasongrad · Founder, Bstow
@sama This is awesome! Will this be mostly beginner content or do you feel there will also be a lot of value for seasoned entrepreneurs?
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Steven Pham
@svkpham · Special Projects @ YC
@mrjasongrad @sama while a lot of the content will be focused on the early stages of a startup, office hours and community are both things that may provide value to seasoned entrepreneurs.
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Jason Grad
@mrjasongrad · Founder, Bstow
@svkpham @sama Great! I'm excited to collaborate and see how we can add value to your community, as well.
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sri
@sridhar_kondoji · No Fluff Just Stuff skills tracker
Just signed up. Looking forward to attending the course
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