[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)
(HTM) web link (blog.ycombinator.com)
(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).
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| 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.
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| 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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