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Y Combinator's Startup School
Let's do this!
Introduce Yourself Here
Week 1 - Resources and Videos
Question Submission Form
Reading - Advice for Ambitious 19 year olds
Reading - Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur
Reading - Stupid Apps and Changing the World
Reading - Do things that Don't Scale
Lecture - Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I - Sam Altman (43:52)
Lecture - Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II - Sam Altman (46:18)
Project 1
Project - Log Problems you Encounter in Life
Week 2 - Resources and Videos
Reading - How to Get Startup Ideas
Video - Excerpt from Steve Jobs’s 1995 interview with Computerworld’s Oral History Project (12:11)
Reading - From Failure to $37M in Funding
Reading - Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing
Lecture - Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideas - Paul Graham (48:07)
Lecture - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing - Adora Cheung (52:21)
Week 3 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory - Peter Thiel (50:16)
Reading - Chapter 3-5 of Zero to One
Reading - The only metric that matters
Video - How we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users (39:11)
Reading - Does Slow Growth Equal Slow Death?
Reading - A Recipe for Growth: Adding Layers to the Cake
Reading - Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's Early Days: Go Hard or Go Home
Reading - The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann
Video - Growth Account & Triangle Heatmap Explaination
Reading - Startup = Growth
Reading - Chasing Facebook's Next Billion Users
Video - Ready to Grow Breakout Session
Lecture - Growth - Alex Schultz (47:27)
Project 2
Project 2 - Redefine an idea from Project 1
Week 4 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - How to Build Products Users Love, Part I - Kevin Hale (33:16)
Reading - Your App Makes Me Fat
Reading - What Makes a Design Intuitive
Video - Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut (42:02)
Reading - BJ Fogg's Behavior Model
Reading - Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines
Reading - The Sanctity of Marriage
Reading - Creating Passionate Users Blog
Reading - What Makes Marriages Work
Reading - The Press is a Tool
Lecture - Doing Things That Don't Scale / PR / How to Get Started - Walker Williams, Justin Kan, Stanley Tang (52:13)
Week 5 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - How to Raise Money - Marc Andreessen, Conrad Parker and Ron Conway (50:10)
Reading - Why Software is Eating the World
Reading - How to Convince Investors
Reading - How to Raise Money
Reading - LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock
Reading - The Happiness Culture: Zappos isn't a company, it's a mission
Reading - Don't Fuck Up the Culture
Reading - Ron Conway's Recommended Readings
Lecture - Company Culture and Building a Team: Part I - Alfred Lin, Brian Chesky (50:36)
Week 6 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - Company Culture and Building a Team: Part 2 - Patrick Collison, John Collison, Ben Silbermann (50:36)
Reading - What's it like to work for Stripe
Reading - How to Hire
Reading - The Continuous Productivity of Aaron Levie
Robert Cialdini's 6 Principle of Influence
Reading - Marc Andreessen On the Future of Enterprise
Lecture - Building for Enterprise - Aaron Levie (46:19)
Week 7 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - How To Be A Great Founder - Reid Hoffman (49:46)
Reading - The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are you Network Literate?
Reading - The Alliance: A Visual Summary
Reading - What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs
Reading - If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a "Professional" CEO
Reading - The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
Lecture - How to Operate - Keith Rabois (46:38)
Week 8 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - How to Manage - Ben Horowitz (49:42)
Reading - Making Yourself A CEO
Reading - A Good Place to Work
Reading - How to Minimize Politics in your Company
Lecture - How to Run a User Interview - Emmett Shear (46:27)
Week 9 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - How to Design Hardware Products - Hosain Rahman (47:15)
Video - Hosain Rahman at Startup School SV 2014
Reading - How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup
Lecture - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups - Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy (48:18)
Week 10 - Resources and Videos
Lecture - Sales and Marketing, How to Pitch, and Investor Meeting - Tyler Bosmeny, Michael Seibel, Qasar Younis, Dalton Caldwell (48:50)
Reading - SaaStr - From the trenches sales advice
Reading - How I Raised Myself From Failure
Reading - Five Way to Build a $100M Business
Reading - Pitching Hacks! How to pitch to investors
Lecture - Closing Thoughts and Later Stage Advice - Sam Altman (48:29)
Reading - The Alliance: A Visual Summary
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The Alliance: A Visual Summary
by Reid Hoffman