In todays lecture (2/20), Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, provides very interesting tips and insights for establishing your companys team. Some of these are: - Take a co-founder you already know well, so that if things go bad you have past history to bind you - A good way to meet a co-founder is to meet in college. If youre not in college and you dont know a co-founder, the best thing to do is to go work at an interesting company, which are also cofounder rich. - Try not to hire if not necessary. But if you have to, spend at least 25% of your time doing so. A bad hire in the early stage can tear your company apart. startupclass.samaltman/courses/lec02/ ------------------- According to Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, most of the knowledge necessary to launch a start-up is specific to the start-up itself, but 30% of it is pretty generally applicable, and can be taught. In a 16-hour course currently given at Stanford, Sam Altman learns you how to start a start-up. The actual course started on September 23, and is entirely accessible online: startupclass.samaltman/ Every friday, Watify will feature one class of Altmans course, giving you some time to watch it during or after the weekend ;-) Useful links: - Course homepage: startupclass.samaltman/ - Youtube Playlist: https://youtube/playlist?list=PL5q_lef6zVkaTY_cT1k7qFNF2TidHCe-1 - Recommended Readings: startupclass.samaltman/lists/readings/ - Transcripts of the course: genius/albums/Sam-altman/How-to-start-a-startup-cs183b - Facebook Community: https://facebook/groups/556336557801913/
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:05:10 +0000
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