[HN Gopher] Tell HN: Startup School 2022 - returning to live eve...
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Tell HN: Startup School 2022 - returning to live event, with
meetups worldwide
Hi HN! Today we're launching Startup School 2022. Startup School is
YC's free online course to learn how to start a startup. The 2022
course will be 7 weeks, starting June 27, 2022. More info and the
signup page is at https://www.startupschool.org/ This is our first
live startup school course in 3 years and we've made a lot of
upgrades. To explain the changes, let me give a brief history of
how Startup School has evolved over the years. Startup School goes
all the way back to 2005 when it was a one-day lecture series for
founders
(https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.startupschool.org), but
its current form as an online course got started in 2017
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13801376). We ran three live
courses, in the summers of 2017, 2018, and 2019. For all these
courses, we ran Startup School by hosting lectures with an in-
person audience, recording them, and posting the videos online for
the rest of the participants. We had planned to repeat that course
the following year, but when the pandemic hit, it forced us to
rethink our plans. Unable to host anything in-person for a while,
we relaunched the course as a continuous program in June 2020
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552928). In the continuous
format, you can sign up anytime and watch pre-recorded lecture
videos at your own pace. This is the format we've used since then.
The continuous format has a lot of advantages and we're definitely
going to keep it as an option. But there is a different level of
excitement and energy with a live course, which is why we're
bringing it back this summer. Here's what's new, starting with the
thing I'm personally most excited about: 1) We're going to have
in-person meetups for founders in dozens of cities around the
world. These will come in two forms: First, some of our most
successful YC alumni will be hosting large-scale, 100+ person
meetups at their offices. Each meetup will include a talk by the
founders on how they built the company, followed by a networking
session where people can meet the company founders and each other.
We have these lined up for about 30 cities. Second, we'll connect
founders in the same city with each other and encourage them to
organize smaller local meetups at bars, restaurants, parks, etc.
Based on past participation rates, we're expecting founders to
organize meetups in 100+ cities. 2) In the past live course only a
studio audience experienced the lectures live; the rest just
watched the videos posted online. For 2022 we've gone remote
native: we're hosting all the talks on Zoom so everyone can be part
of the live talk. 3) We're tightly integrating our co-founder
matching site into the course. We launched that site on HN 9 months
ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750298) and since then
it's gone extremely well, with over 70,000 matches made. During
the course, we'll also host many meetups and speed-dating events
for people looking to meet potential cofounders. 4) We have a new
track for founders who don't have an idea yet and are just
exploring doing a startup. Our last course was designed for
founders who already had an idea and were actively working on a
startup. But in October 2020 we added a new Aspiring Founders track
for founders who are just thinking about it
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24944460). We're keeping that
two track structure for this course. I know many people on HN have
participated in one of the earlier versions of Startup School. We'd
love your thoughts on the changes we've made!
Author : snowmaker
Score : 94 points
Date : 2022-05-17 16:24 UTC (6 hours ago)
| eins1234 wrote:
| Curious if YC has any data on the outcomes of the co-founder
| matching programs they've been running?
|
| I'm a bit apprehensive because most of the advice I've heard from
| YC and elsewhere about finding a co-founder involves looking for
| someone you have a long history with, and that's by definition
| not something a co-founder matching program can offer.
|
| Wondering how the outcomes here compare with just going at it
| solo. I understand having a co-founder de-risks the business and
| increases the chance of success in a bunch of ways, but it also
| introduces a bunch of new risks that can turn out to be pretty
| catastrophic.
| techsin101 wrote:
| Honestly I wish it focused more like 50% on finding a problem not
| validating it and staying motivated and productive even go into
| health and nutrition
| rmbyrro wrote:
| Aren't there enough good professionals and plenty of good
| advice for health and nutrition already?
| techsin101 wrote:
| having energy is basis of all effort driven success. if this
| can be optimized by creating a set of steps which have legit
| effect, then it'd be significant contribution to startup
| community. I'd rather have lesson on this instead of legal
| issues, or how to hire, or how to manager, or how talk to
| VCs. My biggest problems have been finding a good idea,
| having energy and focus, and finding cofounder that aren't
| broke but skilled and interested in idea.
| simonw wrote:
| As someone who watches the Covid sewage graphs (via my bot
| https://twitter.com/covidsewage) and can see the current huge
| spike that everyone else seems determined to ignore... please,
| please encourage the hosts of these events to find outside venues
| for them!
|
| I'm not ready to spend time inside with dozens of strangers, even
| masked, but I would be delighted to attend something like this in
| an outside venue.
| fourseventy wrote:
| If you don't want to attend an inside event that's your
| decision. Don't force your crap on the rest of us. Vaccines are
| wildly available, mortality rates for vaccinated people are
| very low, the new COVID strains are not very deadly. Time to
| move on.
| dang wrote:
| Hey, please don't take HN threads further into flamewar!
| especially not on classic flamewar topics, because those tend
| to blow up and consume entire threads. If you wouldn't mind
| reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart,
| we'd be grateful.
|
| It's true that simonw introduced the topic but (a) it _is_
| something many people are still worried about--a spectrum of
| opinion is to be expected; and (b) the bot is pretty cool--
| most comments on controversial topics don 't come with one of
| those.
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| TheGigaChad wrote:
| goodpoint wrote:
| Spot on! Covid is spreading faster but many people denied to
| ignore reality.
| Alex3917 wrote:
| > Startup School goes all the way back to 2007
|
| Oct. 15th 2005, fwiw.
| dang wrote:
| Fixed. Thanks! I love that you know the exact date.
| Alex3917 wrote:
| I just searched my Gmail for:
|
| "startup school" older:2007
| dang wrote:
| It's fun to look at the earliest Startup School threads on HN:
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| https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1230768000&dateRange=custom&...
|
| Like this one: pg: Will everyone please relax?
| It's still the 27th here in California. Trevor's finishing
| reading the applications. We'll send out responses tonight.
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=148333
| xwowsersx wrote:
| Did everyone relax? Curious to know what happened. :)
| gkoberger wrote:
| Awesome! I've always loved the original Startup School
| conference. The speakers never felt over the top braggy or
| markety, but rather they talked about failures or low points.
|
| (I've been to a ton of them, and used to do doodle notes for
| them! Long before I became a YC founder.
| http://startupnotes.org/)
| snowmaker wrote:
| Thank you! I remember seeing your doodle notes from before -
| they're delightful!
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