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Curated course on how to get into YC

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23 pointstweiss10 comments

Sounds like a great idea, but is this a paid course? If so, I'd personally be worried about it being taught by someone who didn't get in to YC (no offense).

If I misunderstood something, feel free to correct me.

no offense taken ;) it's a free course that I created to help others with their applications and to showcase the prototype of crowdcademy. There will be paid courses eventually, but on much more complicated and lengthy topics such as learning Photoshop or a specific programming language.

This is obvious evidence that something is ripe for disruption, though I'm not sure what. Is it VC decision-making? Credentialing? Streed cred in the startup scene? Startup mentoring?

A curated course on how to get into a program that explicitly mostly "just takes the best team" is a code smell.

Why try to game the application process? Just be extremely [capable, passionate, grit-ful, and inventive].

because Cargo Cult is why

puuh, i think the most important step is missing:

  Q: How To Get Into Y Combinator?
  A: Try!

So, once you've assimilated what everyone else is doing, do 90% of what the successes did, and 10% be bold and brash and overwhelmingly different so as to feel both familiar yet new.

Basically, the same formula as the KLF discovered (now) decades ago.

If anybody knows of great resources that I've overlooked, please leave a coment and I will add them asap. Thanks a lot!

There's a bunch of stuff here: http://ycuniverse.com/

Thanks! I think it's a great resource and have actually included some of it in the course.

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