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How to Start a Startup

Y Combinator

Sam Altman and the folks from Y Combinator offer up an amazing course in "How To Start A Startup" at Stanford. Course includes lectures from: Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz, Paul Graham, Adora...

Episodes

20 episodes

20 - Sam Altman - Later-Stage Advice

Sam caps off the How to Start a Startup series with things you should ignore when you start, but become important a year in (after product-m...

48:29Jan 6, 2016

19 - Sales And Marketing, How To Talk To Investors

Three segments in this lecture: Tyler Bosmeny, founder and CEO of Clever, starts off today's lecture with an overview of the Sales Funnel, a...

48:50Jan 6, 2016

18 - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (equity allocation, vesting), accounting, and oth...

48:19Jan 6, 2016

17 - Hosain Rahman - How to Design Hardware Products

Hosain Rahman, CEO and Founder of Jawbone, covers the design process for building hardware products users love. Lecture Transcript: tech.gen...

47:16Jan 6, 2016

16 - Emmett Shear - How to Run a User Interview

Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on. In this lecture,...

46:27Jan 6, 2016

15 - Ben Horowitz - How To Manage

You are not the only one whom your decisions impact. Ben Horowitz, founder of Andreessen Horowitz and Opsware, discusses this important mana...

49:43Jan 6, 2016

14 - Keith Rabois - How to Operate

What should the CEO be doing on a day to day basis? How do you make sure the company is moving in the right direction? Keith Rabois, Partner...

46:39Jan 6, 2016

13 - Reid Hoffman - How to be a Great Founder

So you've learned how to get started, how to raise money, how to build products, and how to grow. Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Part...

49:46Jan 6, 2016

12 - Aaron Levie - Building For The Enterprise

Aaron Levie - founder of Box, enterprise master, Twitter comedic genius. In this lecture, he'll convince you to Build for the Enterprise. Le...

46:20Jan 6, 2016

11 - John Collison, Patrick Collison and Ben Silberman - Hiring and Culture, Part 2

Stripe and Pinterest - two companies well known for their strong cultures. The founders - John Collison, Patrick Collison, and Ben Silberman...

50:37Jan 6, 2016

10 - Brian Chesky and Alfred Lin - Culture

Brian Chesky, Founder of Airbnb, and Alfred Lin, Former COO of Zappos and Partner at Sequoia Capital discuss how to build a great company cu...

50:26Jan 6, 2016

09 - Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and Parker Conrad - How to Raise Money

Sam leads a panel Q&A on fundraising in this lecture with Marc Andreessen, Founder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway, Founder...

50:10Jan 6, 2016

08 - How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, Press

Lecture 8 features 3 speakers: Stanley Tang, Founder of Doordash, covers How to Get Started. Walker Williams, Founder of Teespring, covers D...

52:13Jan 6, 2016

07 - Kevin Hale - How to Build Products Users Love

Kevin Hale, Founder of Wufoo and Partner at Y Combinator, explains how to build products that create a passionate user base invested in your...

48:02Jan 6, 2016

06 - Alex Schultz - Growth

Alex Schultz gives an overview of Growth for startups, speaking from a position of authority as the VP of Growth at Facebook. Lecture Transc...

47:27Jan 6, 2016

05 - Peter Thiel - Competition is for Losers

Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Compe...

50:16Jan 6, 2016

04 - Adora Cheung - Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing

So you have an idea. How do you go from zero users to many users?Adora Cheung, Founder of Homejoy, covers Building Product, Talking to Users...

52:22Jan 6, 2016

03 - Paul Graham - Before the Startup

Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, and How to Have Ideas Paul Graham delivers an informative (and highly amusing) talk, addressing counteri...

48:07Jan 6, 2016

02 - Sam Altman - Team and Execution

Sam Altman finishes up "Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution" by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup. Links:...

46:19Jan 6, 2016

01 - Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz - Intro to the course, "How to Start a Startup"

Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin...

43:53Jan 6, 2016