01 - Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz - Intro to the course,

01 - Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz - Intro to the course, "How to Start a Startup"

Listen now

Description

Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-1-how-to-start-a-startup-annotated Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/ Discuss this lecture: startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64030 This video is under Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Links: Lecture Transcript See the slides and readings Click to view: show page on Awesound

More Episodes

See all »

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-market fit). Thanks for watching How to Start a Startup. Hope you learned a ton! From YC Startup Class - How to Start a Startup - Stanford CS183B Lecture...

Published 01/06/16

19 - 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, and how to get to your first $1 Million. Michael Seibel, founder of Justin.tv and Socialcam and Partner at Y Combinator, then goes over how to talk to...

Published 01/06/16

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 other overhead right will save you a lot of pain in the long run. Kirsty Nathoo, CFO at Y Combinator, and Carolynn Levy, General Counsel at Y Combinator, cover...

Published 01/06/16