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Free Startup School 2019
by
Scott Becker
https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2019/
YC is offering a free online startup school.
Its oriented towards a different startup model than IndieHackers - they want you to aim to be a 10 or 100 billion dollar company or die trying. Lots of value in it, with some great content, but keep that in mind
edit: literally, one of the most important criteria to qualify for the prizes at the end is whether you could possibly become a 10 or 100 billion dollar company :)
Missed it out last year. Registering right away!
Went through this last year. Great content, and access to a mentor / being in a group with other people was immensely valuable.
Highly recommended for anybody that hasn't done it. It's been a continued source of improvement for me and my business even a year later
While enrolled where you able to see other people's ideas for inspiration too or do you just work on your own idea?
Yes, in the forum you can see what everyone is working on.
You're put into groups and you get to learn about their products in more detail over 10 weeks and the problems they're having.
I was part of the batch that had a mentor route and was able to participate in weekly calls / office hours. Definitely a lot of transparency to what other people are working on, their struggles and such.
Not going to lie, @devgk, seeing some of your other posts about being able to see IH projects by revenue and stuff, I feel like when you say "inspiration" you're actually saying that you're looking for a good idea to rip off.
At least with the track we were on, we came in with a business idea already, active project, a few customers and such. While we able to draw inspiration from other people's experiences, I wouldn't say it's a good forum to come in to find new ideas, but to improve upon your own.
Yeah our mentors were great. A few people dropped off by the end, which was a little sad, but to be expected.
Yeah, definitely to be expected... our mentor wasn't shocked by the mid point when we were down by quite a few.
Worked out nice though, allowed us to go into a bit more depth on our calls and stuff.