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...
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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...
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20 episodes19 - 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...