Curated course on how to get into YC

http://www.crowdcademy.com/courses/startups/how-to-get-into-y-combinator/

by tweiss • 14 years ago

23 10 14 years ago

crowdcademy.com

tweiss3• 14 years ago

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

benologist• 14 years ago

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

tweiss3• 14 years ago

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

joelrunyon• 14 years ago

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.

tweiss3• 14 years ago

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.

franze• 14 years ago

puuh, i think the most important step is missing:

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

bbq• 14 years ago

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

feralmoan• 14 years ago

because Cargo Cult is why

invalidOrTaken• 14 years ago

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.

ebiester• 14 years ago

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.

Curated course on how to get into YC

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