I was wondering what the acceptance rates were for this MOOC. I understand it's difficult to deal with large numbers of applicants and that it's just not feasible to give every single applicant personalized feedback.<p>From the other side, I've been working on my goal for much of the past year and a half if I include collaboration attempts with offline businesses in my market that ended with job offers but no collab. I understand the long time span looks bad. I understand that it's minus that I'm a solo founder. It's just that I've gone a long time without a real salary or even insurance, I deeply believe in the value of what I'm working on and am beginning to have an idea of how much longer and harder the path is without mentorship from people who have done it before.<p>I see a tremendous value in YC and have already benefited from its free content. That said, estimating the EV of applying, has to include an assessment of likelihood and the costs of time and distraction as well as the tremendous upside.<p>Knowing the acceptance rate would be helpful in calibrating how to approach future applications, both for me and others who weren't selected.
Interesting how Moskovitz just glosses over a "lifestyle" business. I started a business 2 years ago, am the sole employee, and it'll make $400-500k in revenue in 2017 with 20-40% net profits.<p>I don't think I recreated the wheel here. I'm making a software product that businesses want to buy.
Something else that's just out is the list of future speakers: <a href="https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-first-lecture-and-speaker-list/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ycombinator.com/startup-school-online-first-lec...</a><p>(via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045559" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14045559</a>)
This is an interesting talk, but it is substantially similar to the previous one that was already out there.<p>Which makes me think: it would be interesting to have a diff tool for videos, but it diffs a representation of the content not specific video frames.<p>Customers might include all the students of Udacity, Coursera, EdX and Startupschool.
A couple of the slides are titled: <i>Getting your first 100 users.</i> I think that's probably a strong attraction/benefit for YC. Its alumni seem almost to be a keiretsu from the outside, offering connections and first sales to their newly hatched brethren.
Great resource - looking forward to future videos. It does feel like there's an assumption that everyone who wants to build a startup is trying to build the same kind of startup. Lifestyle businesses and social entrepreneurship ventures are kind of glossed over, but are legitimate - they require passion and hardwork without the hope or promise of big payoffs. I'm wondering if this series will be appropriate for people who are interested in those types of startups - I guess we will see.
Teams actively pursuing a startup and who have been chosen for founders track get split into groups, with a group advisor and a Mattermost room.<p>It will be of great help for the folks who applied and did not get selected to have access to an official 'Mattermost' room to build a community of like minded individuals keen on entrepreneurship to share information and motivate ourselves.
I see there's now an update form in the MOOC now. It has four fields—metric, value, growth and notes. Are there any pages on the site offering guidance on how to get the most out of the MOOC?<p>In what cases should the primary metric be "other"?
Does anyone know if they will be doing this again? We found out about it too late to do try and apply. I looked through the FAQ on the website, but did not see anything about whether this was a one-off or if they would do it again.