YC is always doing a good job in educating people on startup things, and they truly inspire a whole generation of founders, including myself.<p>But still, most advices we could find online are too high level, too abstract, too philosophical. Yeah there’s a need for this type of things. But as a person who is thinking to quit his/her job to start a company, they may need more actionable advices and data points, e.g., how to buy healthy insurance, what corporate credit card to use, where to find design/engineering help, what specific tools to use for specific things & the cost... I wish there were such “trivia” advices when I started out 4 years ago. Of course, we can’t expect someone like pg or sam Altman to tell us what specific saas or api or health insurance to buy :) this kind of things can only come from people who fight in the frontline , while the memory / experience is still fresh.<p>Maybe I should write an ebook for these unglamorous advices , especially for people who don’t want to go the venture scale route :)<p>- [edit 1] I had an old blog post on the tools / tech I used for my company: <a href="https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behind-a-one-person-23/" rel="nofollow">https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...</a> it’s of course not the most optimal set of tools & tech; but they get things done :)<p>- [edit 2] when people make it and become successful entrepreneurs/VCs, they are teaching in startup graduate schools with their deep knowledge. But Where is the startup kindergarten/primary school to teach those things that college/graduate schools assume you already know?
Hey HN! We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017, but it was only for founders who were already actively working on building their companies. Since then we've heard from many folks considering in starting a company in the future, and we realized that a modified version of Startup School could be helpful for them as well. This requires some curriculum tweaks like a much stronger focus on finding and vetting ideas as well as thinking about co-founders.<p>We decided to work on that, and just announced that you can register for the new course today. It'll provide curriculum tailored for early founders as well as exercises to think through the decision to start a company or not.
OT the title as written by the submitter (“YC Startup School for future founders who aren’t quite ready to start yet”) reminds me a bit of Zoolander<p>Anyway, the program sounds very interesting and it’s nice to see that YC is caring about people who want to start something but don’t yet know what they want to start.
My first thought was that this sounds like a joke, but thinking about it further I realized there are definitely some target cases for this kind of program.<p>I'm lucky to be able to work on my stuff full time, but it wasn't too long ago when I worked a full time job and couldn't find the time to balance things out to go 100% in my business.<p>I think this is great. I would think of it as "progressive onboarding" for future founders.
I'd like to register for the course, but it asks me to complete information about my company. Surely, if I was only thinking of starting a startup and had not already started one I wouldn't have that information to provide. So, I'm not entirely sure how to complete the registration other than just making stuff up.
IMO, there needs to be a bootstrapping track. Perhaps the bootstrapping track should even be the primary one. Of course YC won't do this, but IMHO, bootstrapping leads to the best chance for young people to quickly become millionaires.
When I click on Register and login with my YC account, it takes me to "SIGN UP | COMPANY DETAILS (STEP 4/4)" step.<p>I think I left halfway while signing up in Startup School long time ago for the first time. Is there a way to not fill the company details and sign up for future founders course?
The post fails to specify this, so I hesitated to even bother to click through to the registration page, but this is a <i>free</i> course.<p><i>Startup School for Future Founders<p>A free, 6-week online course for aspiring startup founders.</i><p><a href="https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders</a><p>I wish I had a clearer idea of what kind of schedule and time commitment is involved. I'm tempted to sign up, but I still have a lot of trouble keeping a schedule, though I'm less impaired than I used to be. I can be productive, but on my own terms, which is why I work from home and yadda.
You know what's funny? I've read the promo material, signed up, and there's little mention of how this program works, whether it's synchronous, async, or what? I'm assuming it's all async, since otherwise, it would be titled "Startup School for future founders who are comfortable with open-ended commitments, because they're young, single and unemployed."
Looks cool! Hoping to learn a lot.<p>By the way, @dang, the link <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/posts/35214" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupschool.org/posts/35214</a> on the page <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/dashboard" rel="nofollow">https://www.startupschool.org/dashboard</a> (under "Welcome to the forum") is 404ing for me. Has it not been published yet?
It feels like YC is the mainstream thing nowadays, the traditional school of startupery. But startup founders and hackers like the naughty [0] things, not the established.<p>[0]: <a href="https://youtu.be/4WO5kJChg3w?t=404" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/4WO5kJChg3w?t=404</a>
The big value of YC is getting a club of people together doing similar things. I did startup school but the videos got boring. I wish I could interact with other people also doing YC and building their own startups.<p>Half the value of school is other kids also in the same environment. Easy to forget that when making things online.
This is really great! As a high school student I'm not very experienced with the startup ecosystem but it'll be really interesting to learn more.
I'm getting this response when I try to log in:<p><pre><code> {"status":422,"error":"Unprocessable Entity"}</code></pre>
I'm not sure what the ideal % of people should actually start a company is. It certainly isn't for everyone. Perhaps a helpful topic would be "Should I actually be a founder?" or "Should I start a venture scale company or a lifestyle business?". I think many more people would be happy with the consistency and regularity of a small lifestyle business than pursing an opportunity that's billion or bust.