How to Start a Startup
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Overview
CS183B is a class we’re teaching at Stanford. It’s designed to be a sort of one-class business course for people who want to start startups.
Videos of the lectures, associated reading materials, and assignments will all be available here. There will be 20 videos, some with a speaker or two and some with a small panel. It’ll be 1,000 minutes of content if you watch it all.
We’ll cover how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more.
You can’t teach everything necessary to succeed in starting a company, but I suspect we can teach a surprising amount. We’ve tried to take some of the best speakers from the past 9 years of Y Combinator dinners and arrange them in a way that will hopefully make sense.
We’re doing this because we believe helping a lot of people be better at starting companies will be good for everyone. It will hopefully be valuable even for people who don’t want to start startups.
Talks like these have really helped Y Combinator founders create their companies. We hope you find it helpful too!
Syllabus
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel
Ben Silbermann, Founder & CEO, Pinterest How to Raise Money 10/23/14 Alfred Lin, Former COO, Zappos and Partner, Sequoia Capital Company Culture and Buliding a Team, Part I 10/28/14 Patrick and John Collison,Founders, Stripe Company Culture and Building a Team, Part II 10/30/14 Aaron Levie, Founder, Box Sales and Marketing 11/4/14 Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Ventures and Founder, LinkedIn TBA 11/6/14 Keith Rabois, Partner, Khosla Ventures How to Operate 11/11/14 Ben Horowitz, Founder, Andreessen Horowitz, and Founder, and Opsware How to Manage 11/13/14 Marissa Mayer, CEO, Yahoo TBA 11/18/14 Hosain Rahman, Founder, Jawbone How to Build Products Users Love, Part II 11/20/14 Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy, Partners, Y Combinator Mechanics--Legal, Finance, HR, etc. 12/2/14 TBA 12/4/14 Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator Closing Thoughts and Later-Stage Advice
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Sam Altman
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4.7 rating, based on 16 reviews
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Raj Dhawan is taking this course right now, spending 8 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
Absolutely am loving this course, primarily because it is based on the real world, all the speakers are businessmen who own and run startups, and no professors so far. I am currently on Video#7 of 20, and am finding it to be fascinating. Every speaker has his own unique take on what a start up is, and yet I can see them agreeing with each other. Starting a StartUp is really tough business, primarily because the payoff for a successful startup is so bloody huge. -
Pablo Antonio Vegvarel
1Excellent course to introduce yourself to the world of startups. It helps you understand the basic notions and an approximation to the necessary roadmap for an entrepreneurial path. -
Harshil Lodhi
11Harshil Lodhi completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
This is the only MOOC course in which I didn't feel the need to motivate myself to complete the course. It is very interesting and relates very easily to real life. And the people giving their opinions are ones who have created real business value worth Billions of Dollars.
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Anonymous is taking this course right now.
Good course if you are looking to start a startup. You can also want to know how to start a startup company then Check out this resource- https://www.techcrackblog.com/2019/06/how-to-start-startup.html -
in this class, i can know how to start a first step in running a company orstart an easier one first. the most important thing is not be afraid to start.
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Rick Renner completed this course, spending 3 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
Extraordinary guidelines and advice to chart your course and set the agenda and approach for your development and launch cycles. -
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Connie completed this course, spending 5 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be medium.
Completed this course
Very useful for new start up
And good sharing to new entrepreneurs
Thanks for the sharing
I will share it to my student Incase
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