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balajisson New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

Thanks. Will fix this and a few other typos (DCVS -> DVCS).

balajisson New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

Right, the idea is a survey course with links for depth. Many of these are areas you need to have at least some familiarity with at the inception of a new company, and they really aren't taught well (even at a survey level) within academia at the present time. This is a first step towards remedying that; hopefully more in-depth courses will follow.

balajisson New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

Good idea. Will update the page text to include this in our next revision.

balajisson New Coursera class, "Startup Engineering"

Primary instructor here. Was going to wait to post this to HN till I had more material up, but please check out http://startup.stanford.edu.

We'll have a bunch of speakers over the course of the class from more than a dozen of the top startups in the Valley (Square, Uber, Stripe, AirBnB, etc.) to round out the technical material. Agreed with one commenter that there are indeed a lot of TLAs, but that's for the SEO ;)

The class is being taught on the Stanford campus now from January through March, and the lecture notes will be open sourced (probably under AGPL) in April. This will provide a free textbook to combine with the MOOC itself, so that those in the developing world have access.

Any constructive feedback would be most appreciated, and my email is balajis at stanford dot edu.