[HN Gopher] Startup School's "Aspiring Founders" track is reopen...
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       Startup School's "Aspiring Founders" track is reopening as a
       continuous course
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-03-16 15:58 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.ycombinator.com)
        
       | evanrich wrote:
       | Does anyone who has done the previous iteration of this course
       | have any takeaways? I am interested in working through it and
       | would be interested in the last class saw it as time well spent.
        
         | broberts01 wrote:
         | I found there were a bunch of good nuggets of practical
         | knowledge that I didn't know and were very good to learn. In
         | general, the lessons are practical and aren't "fluffy", even
         | for topics I thought might be (like generating startup ideas).
         | 
         | The biggest takeaways for me were:
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         | 1) Find people with a problem and have constant communication
         | with them (while solving said problem)
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         | 2) Launch early and often. MVP can and should suck.
         | 
         | 3) There is no "one big release". This one was super valuable
         | to me because I always thought you basically had one shot to
         | get traction and you failed if you didn't. Realistically, if
         | you do rule 2, you have ample opportunity to continue
         | changing/growing/launching.
        
       | kcorbitt wrote:
       | Hey HN! We've decided to make Startup School available to folks
       | who aren't currently working on a startup but are thinking about
       | starting one in the future. We ran a similar course last fall
       | which went well, so going forward it's going to be a permanent
       | offering. Happy to answer questions!
        
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