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> Build a community of entrepreneurs who can encourage and teach each other Working towards the mentioned goal can start right here on HN by adding a navbar li
by ploggingdev 10y ago
> Build a community of entrepreneurs who can encourage and teach each other
Working towards the mentioned goal can start right here on HN by adding a navbar link titled "MOOC" like what YC did with "Apply HN". I am curious to know if YC considered involving the HN community directly like they did with the Fellowship. I remember the whole controversy involving pinboard and YC receiving a lot of flak for it, but I hope that experience did not deter YC from involving the HN community if they had considered involving the HN community. I imagine there are a lot of enthusiastic folks around here willing to give feedback to startups.
Sam Altman mentioned that somewhere (can't remember where) that they would experiment giving funding to a few startups taking part in the MOOC. I wonder why they pushed that to the next offering of the MOOC, why not start now?
Also, what happened to the Fellowship? I thought it was a great idea but I get the impression (from having read comments about the Fellowship written by YC partners) that YC felt it might not have been the best way to scale funding new startups and so the MOOC was born.
Suggestion : the Fellowship was a great idea and so is this MOOC, why not make the Fellowship a subset of the MOOC i.e fund a few startups taking part in the MOOC with $20,000 or so and please find a way to involve the HN community directly.
- saycheese 10y agoHow would YC moderate 3rd party mentors?
- dang 10y agoThanks, that's a great suggestion and it does seem like there should be ways for the HN community to plug into this. It's probably also the case that we should let the new thing grow a bit before trying to extend it. But I'll talk with Sam about this the next time I see him.