adora

You can update your application up until Aug 13.

You should choose the timezone you'll be in the majority of the time. If traveling way outside it, you may have group office hours sessions at a wacky time. It won't impact the lectures since you can just watch on your own schedule, or most engagement with peers since it'll be a forum-like experience.

You can be from anywhere.

One place to start: https://www.startupschool.org/library

Yes, very much so.

Correct, will be awarded after course is completed.

Your advisor will set the times. We'll try to match you with someone who can work with your timezone. (We had people from over 140 countries last time participate.)

Startup School is targeting a much wider audience. We really want to help every entrepreneur that wants help with this online course.

That's exciting to hear!

1. Yes, definitely.

2. No, it doesn't have to be established yet. In fact, we're working with Stripe Atlas, who will help you incorporate and set up your company bank account.

3. Depending on your idea, we'd likely encourage you to launch _something_ during the program. But if you're auditing, you're on your own timeline.

Oops, good point. We'll change that soon. Will update here once done. Edit: good to go now.

Yep, there's an option for that on the registration flow: https://www.startupschool.org/register

Only one member needs to sign up the company, and at the end of the sign up process, s/he is asked to provide their co-founders emails to invite.

All the course material is relevant to any founder thinking about or currently working on any early-stage startup, including biotech. We'll also group similar startups together so that you can help each other out with industry-specifics as well.

Nope, you can do it all on-line. Completing = watching all the lectures, participating in group office hours and submitting minimal updates on your company.

August 13.

Not tied to Hacker News id at the moment. Need to create a new account.

Hi, I'm Adora, a YC partner, and will be helping out with the course. Very excited to meet and work with everyone. Happy to answer any questions.

I grew up on Thomas Sowell. Extremely articulate economist. I've now come to disagree with probably one-third of what he writes but all of his works are really good frameworks of how to think.

“Dealers of Lightning” by Michael Hiltzik - on Xerox PARC and its highly inventive cast of characters

“Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankl - on choosing your own attitude

“Dreamland” by Sam Quinones - on America’s opioid epidemic

“Technics and Civilization” by Lewis Mumford - on technological progress (and machines) from the perspective of someone in the 1930s

“The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein - on the myth of de facto segregation (vs de jure segregation)

It's the same book. For some reason they changed the title for the later printed paperback version.

Founders should be where their customers are, so if your customers aren't in SV, then you probably should be elsewhere. We work with with each team to figure out what the ideal arrangement should be.

Have you finished the whole novel already (and just publishing chapter by chapter) or are you writing and changing as you go?

Also, this might make more sense for non-fiction work but what are your thoughts on letting a book evolve over time? So the writer updates and changes the content as s/he learns new things (and obviously lets readers know when edited).

One example that YC has already funded is Substack https://www.substack.com/ Writers on there are making more than have ever made elsewhere.

It's not just about living to 1000 years old. To me, it's more about solving age-related diseases, e.g. Alzheimer's, etc.

Age doesn't factor into our decision at all. We've accepted founders in their 60s+. Apply away!

Dilbert IRL.

This is apparently getting big in China.

Less than three months since the first online claw crane platform was established, over 30 online similar platforms appeared. New platforms continue to appear at doubling rate. The monthly revenue reaches over 10 million yuan with 30-60% of the gross profit margin currently from one million users. It is easy to see the profitable prospect. Thus, capital companies enter one after another. According to industry data, the market value of broadcasting catching dolls is nearly 60 billion yuan. Such large market has attracted companies and capital of all sizes to flood in.

http://column.iresearch.cn/b/201712/819007.shtml

I've spoken with parties highly involved with the IER that are actually much more optimistic. Would recommend everyone talk to their immigration attorneys about their own status and whether applying is worth it or not.

This is great. TIL notifications are my favorite thing about the Reddit app (right behind /r/explainlikeimfive). So my only suggestion is to add notifications for new, trending ones.

I can see how people might think the timing is clever. But in reality, the four founders are no longer full-time so they just decided to put this together. It's a good reminder of what YC has been and should always be about and what they wouldn't want us to deviate from. In general, writing this down is a good idea for any company. It helps get everyone on the same page.