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Startup Engineering
Coursera
3 recommenders · 3 threads · recommended in 3 years, 2013–2015 · score 3.4
A Stanford course taught by Balaji Srinivasan and Vijay Pande, offered on Coursera, covering how to build startups using a technology-focused, engineering-minded approach, including industry history and future trend prediction. It is described as a sequel to the CS183 course.
Commenters call it a course that truly changed how they approached tech and startups, and praise its focus on understanding industry history alongside predicting trends.
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A good founder is capable of anticipating which turns lead to treasure and which lead to certain death. A bad founder is just running to the entrance of (say) the “movies/music/filesharing/P2P” maze or the “photosharing” maze without any sense for the history of the industry, the players in the maze, the casualties of the past, and the technologies that are likely to move walls and change assumptions.
Understanding history is just as important as (trying to) predict future trends. Strongly recommend Balaji's startup engineering course from which this quote notes was extracted.
https://spark-public.s3.amazonaws.com/startup/lecture_slides...
https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
A MOOC I'd definitely recommend taking along side this is the Startup Engineering from Stanford, taught by Balaji Srinivasan and Vijay Pande.
I've taken a lot of MOOCs but that was one that truly changed a lot of things in terms of how I approached tech and startups, and it actually says in it's description that it's somewhat of a sequel to CS183 (this new course is CS183B).
https://www.coursera.org/course/startup
Udacity, Coursera, Codecademy, Codeschool. Really, you should use Codecademy to do a few drills in the language you want to become familiar with the syntax first. Udacity is great and the problems are deep enough. Coursera has a few outstanding courses (Stanford Startup Engineering!)
Coursera, edX and Udacity.
I have myself taken half a course on Udacity(did not finish) and a Startup Engineering Course on Coursera. I've started a new course on Coursera and really enjoy the material on there.
Also, I'd suggest you read a lot, the internet is a treasure trove of information. I've learnt from long blog posts and free online books. Have a go and explore, you'll reach a point where you don't have enough time to study everything you want.
Goodluck