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Curated course on how to get into YC
- tweiss 14y agoIf anybody knows of great resources that I've overlooked, please leave a coment and I will add them asap. Thanks a lot!
- benologist 14y agoThere's a bunch of stuff here: http://ycuniverse.com/ http://ycuniverse.com/
- tweiss 14y agoThanks! I think it's a great resource and have actually included some of it in the course.
- joelrunyon 14y agoSounds like a great idea, but is this a paid course? If so, I'd personally be worried about it being taught by someone who didn't get in to YC (no offense). If I misunderstood something, feel free to correct me.
- tweiss 14y agono offense taken ;) it's a free course that I created to help others with their applications and to showcase the prototype of crowdcademy. There will be paid courses eventually, but on much more complicated and lengthy topics such as learning Photoshop or a specific programming language.
- franze 14y agopuuh, i think the most important step is missing: Q: How To Get Into Y Combinator? A: Try!
- bbq 14y agoWhy try to game the application process? Just be extremely [capable, passionate, grit-ful, and inventive].
- feralmoan 14y agobecause Cargo Cult is why
- invalidOrTaken 14y agoThis is obvious evidence that something is ripe for disruption, though I'm not sure what. Is it VC decision-making? Credentialing? Streed cred in the startup scene? Startup mentoring? A curated course on how to get into a program that explicitly mostly "just takes the best team" is a code smell.
- ebiester 14y agoSo, once you've assimilated what everyone else is doing, do 90% of what the successes did, and 10% be bold and brash and overwhelmingly different so as to feel both familiar yet new. Basically, the same formula as the KLF discovered (now) decades ago.