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Startup School: Advisor Edition(blog.ycombinator.com)
4 points by adora 8y ago|4 comments
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by adora 8y ago
It's not really affiliated with YC; I just happen to work there. I met Ted while trying to find a copy of the book and when he told me he had a bunch in storage, I volunteered to help sell the rest. 100% sales go to him. This edition i
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by adora 8y ago
:( This was intended to be a talk on a pretty specific topic for the Startup School course. Day-to-day operations for pre-product market fit CEOs. Hopefully, it was useful and interesting in this context! Happy to take suggestions on how I
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by adora 8y ago
Clickable link: https://www.electionday.org/
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by adora 8y ago
Instead via the old method of phone, they're texting about the bills instead. It seems that's what people are more responsive to today. All communication is private. It has nothing to do with social media.
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by adora 8y ago
I was the application reviewer and I look forward to feeling silly :) But really, one of the things I've been thinking about for a long time is how YC can help every startup in the world. We're still not there yet but this pushed
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by adora 8y ago
Hi everyone, after all this, we believe the right thing to do is to accept everyone into Startup School, so we're going to find a way to make this work. More info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806459
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by adora 8y ago
That would be cool. Sounds like you could build a community around that.
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by adora 8y ago
I liked Sam's rubric of how to evaluate a startup to work at. Same one that investors use. You invest time for equity, they $ for equity, so makes sense.
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by adora 8y ago
You should be able to edit your profile and company details when you log in.
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by adora 8y ago
Still makes sense, and you'll be eligible as long as you complete the course. One of our goals for Startup School is to help founders beyond the Silicon Valley and US. Great entrepreneurs are everywhere.
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by adora 8y ago
Nope, we will accept solo founders.
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by adora 8y ago
That figure does not include audit. Advisors use most of their time on this doing group office hours sessions. Last year each advisor had around 25-30 companies each, so we only needed 100 or so. They're all YC alum who love to pay it
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by adora 8y ago
Yep. We've tailored the content to fit all sorts of sales models. There'll also be plenty of other founders with similarly long sales cycles to chat to / learn from within the Startup School community.
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by adora 8y ago
You can update your application up until Aug 13.
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by adora 8y ago
You should choose the timezone you'll be in the majority of the time. If traveling way outside it, you may have group office hours sessions at a wacky time. It won't impact the lectures since you can just watch on your own schedul
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by adora 8y ago
You can be from anywhere.
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by adora 8y ago
One place to start: https://www.startupschool.org/library
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by adora 8y ago
Yes, very much so.
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by adora 8y ago
Correct, will be awarded after course is completed.
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by adora 8y ago
Your advisor will set the times. We'll try to match you with someone who can work with your timezone. (We had people from over 140 countries last time participate.)
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by adora 8y ago
Startup School is targeting a much wider audience. We really want to help every entrepreneur that wants help with this online course.
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by adora 8y ago
That's exciting to hear! 1. Yes, definitely. 2. No, it doesn't have to be established yet. In fact, we're working with Stripe Atlas, who will help you incorporate and set up your company bank account. 3. Depending on your ide
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by adora 8y ago
Oops, good point. We'll change that soon. Will update here once done. Edit: good to go now.
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by adora 8y ago
Yep, there's an option for that on the registration flow: https://www.startupschool.org/register
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by adora 8y ago
Only one member needs to sign up the company, and at the end of the sign up process, s/he is asked to provide their co-founders emails to invite.
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by adora 8y ago
All the course material is relevant to any founder thinking about or currently working on any early-stage startup, including biotech. We'll also group similar startups together so that you can help each other out with industry-specific
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by adora 8y ago
Nope, you can do it all on-line. Completing = watching all the lectures, participating in group office hours and submitting minimal updates on your company.
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by adora 8y ago
August 13.
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by adora 8y ago
Not tied to Hacker News id at the moment. Need to create a new account.

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