Hallelujah – a college class worth singing its praises.
“Want to be an entrepreneur. There’s a class for that,” reports Fortune.com on the new class, offered this fall by Sam Altman, president of leading tech incubator Y Combinator. It’s run through Stanford this fall, but the lectures are available online, and college students across the nation will be viewing them.
“How to Start a Startup” … will be available to 300 Stanford engineering students, but video the classes also will be available on a dedicated website. Overall he expects around 20 videos that will provide more than 1,000 minutes of content.
Altman himself will lead the first two lectures, but others will be led by such Valley luminaries as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Marissa Mayer and Stripe’s Collison brothers.
“I believe that around 30% of what it takes to start a startup is generally applicable, which is what we’ll focus on teaching,” Altman explains. “The other 70% is more custom, but that 30% will give people a good start.”
According to the project’s website, the class promises “everything we know about how to start a startup, for free, from some of the world experts.”
Even more good news: Hundreds of universities are organizing groups to watch the videos together.
“We’ll cover how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more,” the website states. “You can’t teach everything necessary to succeed in starting a company, but I suspect we can teach a surprising amount.”
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