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Startup Class

Y Combinator

18 recommenders · 18 threads · recommended in 6 years, 2018–2023 · score 20.2

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Startup Class is Y Combinator's free course on founding and building a startup, covering the early stages of company formation, product, fundraising and growth. The comments provided do not describe its specific contents in detail.

One commenter points to it as a resource for the startup-versus-big-company decision, though the comment itself is mainly about personal career tradeoffs.

Business, Finance & Economicsbeginnerfreevideo lectures#startups#entrepreneurship#fundraising#y combinator

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  1. Strongly recommendselatedater/startups2021in “Startup only makes $20k/month. Time to shut it down?”▲ 2

    If you're hitting the point of diminishing returns then you need to consider other channels or look at other ways to reduce your cost to acquire. Is it as efficient as possible? Also, what is your retention like, how often are customers returning? I would highly recommend looking at the Startup…

  2. Strongly recommendsthatmemeguy___r/startups2020in “Entrepreneurial / How to startup courses”▲ 1

    YC startup school is the best startup course out there. You might want to check out Slidebean YouTube channel for stuff that you should know about starting a company

  3. Strongly recommendsjchasingar/Entrepreneur2019in “Accomplishments and Lesson Learned Friday! - (November 15, 2019)”▲ 2

    Thanks for the insightful response. We have put up a Github page on day one and now are basically just redirecting our domain to a Notion page. We get most engagements on FB communities and Reddit. Once people understand what we're doing, they are ready to sign up. So I'm not brushing landing page…

  4. Strongly recommendsgooploopgoopr/Entrepreneur2019in “what are the best courses for an entrepreneur for a small company?”▲ 2

    I participated in Y Combinator's Startup School in 2018 and it was awesome. It's an online course, it was free as they accepted everyone due to a screw-up, they might be doing it again. Overall - highly recommend it.

  5. RecommendsNo_Wolverine_4916r/Entrepreneur2023in “Should I find a cofounder or learn to be a CEO?”

    you can take classes on y combinator's startup school. You must learn to become a CEO, it's a journey and skillset that you will cherish.

  6. RecommendsWeekly-Sandwich297r/startups2023in “Is it worth building or should I get pre-orders first?”

    The Y combintor course. It's startup school for entrepreneurs. https://www.startupschool.org/dashboard Second check out this Playlist from the Stanford University lecture by Y combintor. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5q_lef6zVkaTY_cT1k7qFNF2TidHCe-1&si=XWKDgjdxxB0xUiXw Both are useful and…

  7. RecommendsAutomataAppr/SaaS2023in “What should I be studying that will help me build an SAAS?”

    Take YCombinator's Startup School course

  8. Recommendslostsoul8282r/startups2023in “Planning out early staging of startup and looking for advice on best practices”

    Do the courses on yc startup school. Read the book "mom test". Reach out to as many people as you can, get them to tell you about their problems. Once you see a pattern between the problems then get them to sign binding letters of intent (if you built it then they will pay you), and either start…

  9. Recommendscharismaniar/startups2022in “Learning A Specific Skill for a Specific Problem. Where do I Start?”

    In college, I had an idea around teaching coding at scale. I spent a year building the platform and learning how to code. It failed. Why? Nobody found value in it. This was 8 years ago before nocode became mainstream. Moral of the story, coding is just means to an end. If you are passionate about…

  10. RecommendsOmerDayir/SaaS2022in “How to prepare myself for Marketing, Sales, .... as futur CEO”

    I can suggest you some resources you find so helpful. https://udacity.com https://www.startupschool.org These two enlighten you trust me.

  11. Recommendsali-hussainr/Entrepreneur2022in “My teacher talked about making a passive income the other day, he said to buy in bulk from Alibaba and sell on Amazon for a popular product, should I try this? I've never made a business before but I want to gain experience”

    http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html A good read. You can go through the lectures in the Ycombinator startup school. A lot of learnings there for someone just starting.

  12. RecommendsrebankHQr/startups2021in “Do startups prefer MBA Grads over any other Masters Degree when hiring for a role like Digital Marketing?”▲ 1

    The answer is always, "it depends". The general rule in startups is track record first, education second. \- Not all MBAs are equal \- You don't need an MBA to be good at 'business' \- You'll have to unlearn MBA stuff to be good at startups, but the knowledge you gain will come in handy later I…

  13. RecommendsGaryARefuger/smallbusiness2021in “Does anyone else ever have good business ideas that you have zero interest in pursuing?”▲ 2

    Check out YCombinator’s startup school for a decent starting point to fix that. Find free user experience design courses too.

  14. RecommendsKEchyr/startups2021in “Startup”▲ 1

    I highly suggest you to take a look at startup school program of ycombinator. After you take couple of online courses and update your status for some weeks, you will be able reach a lot of free stuff they provide. Best package was 5000 dolars worth of AWS Credit which should cover most of what you…

  15. Recommendsimrich-r/startups2020in “Anyone interested in sharing their story?”▲ 5

    Hey, glad you are thinking about starting your own thing. It is okay and preferable to actually start on side while keeping your job. This will give you security and peace of mind. Once you will see your project pickup and get traction (either revenue, users or others), it is easy to make the…

  16. Recommendsflysonic10r/startups2019in “Solo tech founder built product, now what?”▲ 2

    Check out the book Traction for a good framework to start thinking about your traction strategy. https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Customer/dp/1591848369 YC's Startup School just ended. You can check out some of the tips from their videos…

  17. Recommendsguancialleer/startups2019in “What are some habits of highly UNsuccessful founders? (Anti-Patterns)”▲ 1

    You need to chill. You asked what exactly is technical about wework, I said it’s website. So that proves that wework has a technological aspect and since the founders created that aspect it proves at least one was a technical founder. You also tried to disprove my solo non-technical founder point…

  18. Recommendsgilakosr/Entrepreneur2018in “NooB Monday! - (June 11, 2018)”▲ 1

    I think there are two crucial musts for an idea you have for a startup: \- Passion: It takes years to develop a business and everything you have to make it successful. If you aren't passionate about what it is that you are solving, it will be hard to sustain through the inevitable challenges…

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