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Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" · Y Combinator
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 18:06 unnamed speaker YC Startup School is back.
How The Best Companies Defend Against Mediocrity And Rot · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:11 unnamed speaker YC startup school is back.
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
Demis Hassabis: Agents, AGI & The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough · Y Combinator
- ▶ 12:19 unnamed speaker YC startup school is back.
How Stripe Built Their New Website · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:20 unnamed speaker YC Startup School is back.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
How To Start A Dev Tools Company | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 22:56 Nicolas Dessaigne If you want to learn more about sales, you should also watch Pete's talk about enterprise sales, another startup school video.
How to Apply And Succeed at Y Combinator | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:50 Dalton Caldwell Um, and then as per this talk we did earlier in startup school, this batch about tar pit ideas, teams where there aren't technical founders and they're working on an unlaunched tar pit idea, those folks have the lowest odds.
How Startup Fundraising Works | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:19 Brad Flora And he gave a great video presentation at startup school a few years ago where he presented that material.
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:17 Kat Mignalek Second, we'll walk through some strong one-line company descriptions, including some that I pulled from the startup school community. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24 Kat Mignalek And third, we'll talk about the types of launches you can do during startup school.
- ▶ 7:24 Kat Mignalek It's not a startup school company or a YC company.
- ▶ 8:24 Kat Mignalek So here's one I pulled from the startup school forum. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Kat Mignalek So here's an X for Y example from the startup school community that I think works.
- ▶ 12:15 Kat Mignalek So first is the silent launch, and this is something every one of you should do while you're in startup school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:54 Kat Mignalek So don't spend a ton of your time during startup school worrying about getting press. 2 times in the scene
How to Get Your First Customers | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:09 Gustaf Alströmer Welcome back to Startup School.
YC SUS: Michael Seibel and Eric Migicovsky discuss How to Launch an MVP · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Eric Migicovsky I'm the course facilitator at Startup School.
Jared Friedman - Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:16 Jared Friedman Um, across all of startup school, there are actually over a thousand companies that are doing hard tech or biotech things, which I think is really cool.
- ▶ 6:34 Jared Friedman I went through the startup school curriculum. 2 times in the scene
Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:37 Gustaf Alströmer A great example might be startup school. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:40 Gustaf Alströmer You can have a metric, and I think Ilya talked about this in his earlier Startup School talk, when he built funnels.
Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Adora Cheung So every week in startup school, we've asked you in the software to fill out, ah, to define your primary metric, and then update its current, ah, value.
- ▶ 10:58 Adora Cheung I did last startup school with Elizabeth and Eric.
- ▶ 20:12 Adora Cheung So what I mean by for that is say for, for the purpose of startup school at the end of startup school, how many active users or how much revenue do you want to have?
- ▶ 22:27 Adora Cheung Finally, to end, as you already know, our Startup School software asks you to set your primary metric and goals.
Kevin Hale - How to Evaluate Startup Ideas · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Kevin Hale Ok, so, um, this is how to evaluate startup ideas, and this is actually a new set of content, ah, that we've developed, ah, based on a lot of feedback that we saw from the last startup school, and what we noticed is a lot of people's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:28 Kevin Hale A lot of our efforts here for working on Startup School is to help us
- ▶ 16:13 Kevin Hale In regards to that 10 X product, and showing that you are able to have that, uh, later in startup school, gonna do a lecture on pricing, and we'll talk things about cost and value, and that'll help you sort of better understand, it's like,…
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:04 Craig Cannon You are running Startup School this year. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:06 Kevin Hale So Kyle Corbett, he's the, uh, person from the software team working on startup school software, did an awesome job basically, uh, looking through the data, doing a regression test, and just proving that we're going to have a really good,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:37 Craig Cannon Many of them, I think, for whatever reason, maybe it's the mood, the startup school announcement,
- ▶ 23:28 Craig Cannon So to back up, and given I know like some of the startup school content coming out, um, let's talk about even just coming up with the idea for WooFoo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:25 Craig Cannon Um, they asked one more question that I think is also quite common for early stage founders, people doing startup school.
- ▶ 45:51 Craig Cannon So for this last section, let's go into some hardcore startup school advice. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:09 Craig Cannon Startup school? 2 times in the scene
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:49 Gustaf Alströmer I would, I, I, I, we have this, uh, YouTube video when I talk about growth in startup school, and there's the first couple of slides that they talk about, so like the evolution of, of Facebook and their growth.
- ▶ 48:08 Gustaf Alströmer Yeah, and I, I, that's actually the, the, the example I give on the Facebook graph on my, on my, um, YouTube video, uh, from startup school.
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:41 Karn Saroya so, so actually I, I ran, um, a startup school batch, right?
Ryan Hoover on Product Hunt's Acquisition and Lessons Learned About Launches with Dalton Caldwell · Y Combinator
- ▶ 47:13 Dalton Caldwell So in startup school, which is the online course thing that we have, anyone could participate. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:14 Craig Cannon So, like, startup school is awesome there.
After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:57 unnamed speaker I want to move on to product, but before we do that, I'm just wondering if, if you were going to talk to relatively new startup founders, or people with young companies like most of the companies in startup school, is there specific advice…
- ▶ 24:08 unnamed speaker YC startup school. 2 times in the scene
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:06 Paul Buchheit yeah, you know, I, I was always kind of in the back of my mind, but, um, you know, as I'm coming up to graduate college, which was in, in, in, in, in, so I was very interested in startups, but there really was, you know, there was…
- ▶ 20:57 Geoff Ralston Turns out startup school is the same way now.
- ▶ 41:43 Geoff Ralston I thought this would be like a group office hour, a hundred billion dollar office hour with all of our startup school companies.
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:39 Elad Gil So, ah, first of all, thanks for having me here, and, ah, really excited to be, um, here for Startup School.
- ▶ 7:36 Geoff Ralston Um, so most of the folks here in startup school are, are in very, very early stage companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:08 Geoff Ralston We've been talking a fair amount about that recently in startup school.
A Conversation on Hard Tech with Eric Migicovsky · Y Combinator
- ▶ 24:38 Eric Migicovsky Uh, you can do something like Startup School, where they give you, uh, free money to, to invest in, um, like if you're working on AR and machine learning, you can use that to get compute credits.
Fundraising Fundamentals By Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:42 Geoff Ralston I wrote a guide to seed fundraising as well that I think is pretty useful, but there are lots of other resources, videos from last year's startup school from the
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:45 Jared Friedman Um, and I'd also like to thank everyone on the Startup School Forum who wrote in with questions for the panel.
- ▶ 8:16 Jared Friedman Um, ok, so, most of the companies in Startup School are really early, so I want to take everyone here back to their V-one, the very first version before you'd actually ship anything. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:45 Jared Friedman Ok, so I'm gonna go next to the very top voted question from the Startup School Forum, which is about the trade-off between engineering best practices, like good test coverage, and security, and scalability, and redundancy, versus writing…
- ▶ 41:50 Jared Friedman Um, and I think the topic that came up most commonly in the Startup School Forum was the one that Ralph alluded to, which is how to deal with deadlines and timeframes, particularly with non-technical co-founders.
- ▶ 47:17 Jared Friedman Um, okay, so a lot of the companies in startup school are at the phase where they are trying to figure out the right way to structure their early engineering team.
A Conversation with Elizabeth Iorns - Advice for Biotech Founders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:54 Adora Cheung Um, so we talk a lot about, at startup school, product market fit.
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:53 Craig Cannon Uh, Kat and I are doing a class startup school this week.
- ▶ 40:46 Craig Cannon Um, so there were just a handful of other questions about product market fit that I feel like, I think, um, it's funny because based on the, the startup school lectures, I think like the, the questions are changing with every week and…
How to Sell by Tyler Bosmeny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 unnamed speaker We are halfway through startup school. 3 times in the scene
PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:51 Kat Manalac Um, so here's an example using a startup school company in this batch.
- ▶ 25:25 Kat Manalac So here are a couple of examples of startup school companies who I think had pretty strong one sentence pitches coming in. 2 times in the scene
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:23 Craig Cannon And that, that kind of segues into your whole startup school talk, right?
- ▶ 19:14 Craig Cannon Uh, so this first one from Aaron, Evan Farrell, he asked, you mentioned in the startup school lecture that you had, uh, to pivot, uh, to analytics JS to find product market fit.
- ▶ 26:20 Craig Cannon Um, cause this is one of the things that like people, I think in large part because they were influenced by your startup school talk, uh, they have so many questions about it.
- ▶ 39:22 Craig Cannon This is part of your startup school lecture, where I guess one of your sales reps was forcing you to ask for more?
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Geoff Ralston We are trying something a little bit different this startup school year.
- ▶ 31:03 Geoff Ralston We have thousands of companies out in startup school land trying to figure out what to do next and whether they're doing the right thing and whether they're failing and whether they're on the right path.
Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon) - Startup Legal Mechanics · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:29 Carolynn Levy and I did a startup school lecture on legal and accounting mechanics, and we were hoping that most of you would have time to watch that before you came here today.
- ▶ 57:15 unnamed speaker Ah, hopefully it'll be good home for all of you, and if you have any issues, send an email to ycombinator at startupschool.org, and everyone have a great day.
Geoff Ralston and Adora Cheung Discuss Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:06 Craig Cannon Uh, we're here to talk about Startup School. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Adora Cheung So it's really great because at the end of the day, what we want to do is reduce the barriers to starting a startup. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:08 Geoff Ralston Actually made available in a public library that you can get at at startupschool.org slash library. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:28 Craig Cannon So Adora, could you explain like the different paths of going through startup school? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:59 Geoff Ralston I think startup school is, is, it's fair to say is certainly targeted at very early stage companies. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Geoff Ralston Um, certainly it helps to attract companies to come do startup school. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:23 Geoff Ralston In start school are the companies from around the world, but it's also true. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:44 Geoff Ralston What I think makes startup school powerful and, and, and interesting beyond sort of any online course you can follow and, and, you know, and any book you can read about how to start a startup.
- ▶ 22:07 Geoff Ralston And I think he worked on Startup School too, didn't he?
- ▶ 24:01 Geoff Ralston Uh, I, I happen to believe that the startup content that's been put together, both at Wise, so it's, it's a mix of startup school content and other content that's been generated around some external content that we think is actually… 3 times in the scene
Jessica Livingston Shares 9 Things She Learned From Founding YC · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:42 Jessica Livingston And from the very first year, we did big events like startup school.
3D Home Printing for the Developing World – Alexandria Lafci and Brett Hagler of New Story Charity · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:39 Alexandria Lafci I think you were surprised, like, oh, this person who's, like, a non-profit background watches Startup School.
Elad Gil and Pejman Nozad - Startup Investor School Day 3 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 28:37 Geoff Ralston Investor.startupschool.org.
Startup Investor School Preview with Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:27 Geoff Ralston Uh, we think there's a lot of demand, so we think we're getting a lot of folks who want to come, but also doing a live stream, we're going to make it a, a MOOC, a massively open online course, just like we've done in the past with startup…
- ▶ 37:45 Geoff Ralston They should go, well, it's, the application is going to open on Thursday, and they, I hope I get this right, they should go to investor.startupschool.org.
Your Whole Goal Is to Not Quit - Courtland Allen of Indie Hackers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:29 Courtland Allen I went to startup school, and Jason Fried was there from, and he was like, he stood out like a sore thumb.
- ▶ 42:36 Courtland Allen So I went to startup school in oh nine and saw Jason Freed talk, but my favorite talk was DHH's talk the year before.