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CS183 Startup School
Stanford University
2 recommenders · 2 threads · recommended in 2 years, 2013–2014 · score 2.3
CS183 Startup School is a Stanford University course taught by Peter Thiel with guest founders and CEOs, covering startup strategy and building companies. Commenters point to Blake Masters' published notes from the lectures as a way to access the material.
Commenters call the lectures outstanding and point to Blake Masters' detailed class notes as a useful summary of Peter Thiel's startup course.
Business, Finance & Economicsmixedfreevideo lectures#startups#entrepreneurship#peter thiel#business strategy#stanford
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The course (CS183) which this book is based on was outstanding and the authors claim that they extended and improved on the course. I'm looking forward to the book.
Great post. If you liked this I also suggest taking a look at Peter Thiel's CS183 lectures at Stanford. Blake Masters did a great job taking notes: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
In particular, take a look at the Class 15 one - http://blakemasters.com/post/24122680868/peter-thiels-cs183-...
Is anyone else driven nuts by how hard it is to get at the data behind so many articles?
For instance, the bit about how it's important to have attended one of three universities - "Stanford, MIT, or Harvard", made me wonder what kind of disadvantage you are at if you attend a very strong but public CS program (Berkeley, University of Washington, Illinois).
The article has a link to the reuter's analysis here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-startup-con...
Which includes a link to a graph (I'm thinking, ok, great, here's the data!)
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/series-a
If you hover over some of the dots on the "unconnected" companies, you can see a few of the other universities attended. So it does appear that yes, attending Berkeley or other top public CS programs does put you at a significant disadvantage where it comes to getting series A funding [1], though this was as far as I could get. Maybe I'm bad at web searching, but I just couldn't find the raw data.
You know, as an aside… ycombinator set up an amazing series of talks from founders and CEOs for a truly exceptional class at stanford (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325479). There was a posting about it on HN a while back, and they did make the videos available… but there's nothing like actually being there, possibly with the opportunity to meet a high up in person.
There were a few objections, some down-modded (for a variety of reasons), about possible class issues here. I would say this: there's a reasonably good CS program across the bay at a university that enrolls more low income students than the entire ivy league combined. If middle and low income students appear to be having more trouble becoming founders and getting funding (as opposed to becoming high value employees for those who get series A funding), this might also be a great location for another round of this course.
[1] this is highly relevant, since students from top public CS programs don't appear to have significantly lower mid-career salaries as workers (in fact, worker bee salaries may be slightly higher out of Berkeley).
Also I may have made a correlation causation error. Could be that the university itself has little to do with this.