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Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders?

42 pointsrichardreeze8 comments

I've found a few interesting online courses while browsing "startup Twitter."

They're related to different topics, but here they are:

1. [Productivity] Building a second brain (https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/)

2. [Growth] Demand Curve (https://www.demandcurve.com/)

3. [Growth] Reforge (https://www.reforge.com/)

4. [Product] Hooked Online Workshop (https://courses.nirandfar.com/)

Do you know of other courses like these? (I guess what they have in common is that they're startup-related)

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For those reading this thread whose products or ambitions are more along the "indie hacker"/bootstrapper lines, I've got a bunch of screencasts talking about my experiences over a 10 year period building and living completely from the income of a (Rails/JS) web app (Oxbridge Notes) I built as a one man show.

The screencast topics include everything from getting an MVP out, to a tour of my web app and its admin area, to SEO/Google Analytics/online marketing strategies, to some system design stuff to make maintaining the code easier.

https://www.semicolonandsons.com/series/get-your-first-1000-...

Perhaps the best I have come across is y-combinators own "How to start a startup"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIJaCMEptJjxmmQgGFsnCg/vid...

- How to Start a Startup (YC)

- How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank on Udacity)

- CS183/Zero to One (Peter Thiel)

- CS184: Startup Engineering (Balaji S. Srinivasan)

Best:

Pando Monthly: interviews by Sarah Lacy with founders and VCs. Many go for two or three hours. She goes beyond the PR story and touches on details, doubts, decisions.

This Week in Startups: interviews by Jason Calacanis. You'll learn things that are not in the PR story. Check out the Uber interview with Travis Kalanick for some gore inceptions details..

- Founders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston)

- any book you find by someone who's done it before. VCs, founders, etc. Relevant books can be Jordan Mechner's book about Prince of Persia, Eric Schmidt about Google, Masters of Doom. These contain gems about crucial moments and how people went about doing things, building product, distribution, relations. Peeking behind the curtain.

https://www.startupschool.org/ Current batch just started, its free.

If you are interested in learning about SEO. Ahrefs blog (www.ahrefs.com/blog) is a good starting point. If you want to learn about general marketing tips and tricks (www.marketingexamples.com) is a good choice.

my 2 cents:

As an FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss persuaded terrorists, bank robbers, and kidnappers to see things his way

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-a...

Are you specifically looking for $1000+ courses?

I can really vouch for Reforge.

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