How To Start a Startup, Stanford University lectures

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These are Stanford University lectures videos on how to start a startup business. The lectures are conducted by the people who have been helping start up companies for a decade. Sam Altman, the President of Y Combinator conducts the first two lectures. Full details of the course is available here.

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Lecture 1 – How to Start a Startup

The topic of the first two lectures is “Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution”. You can pause at your continence and re-listen to the information that you can’t understand the first time.

9/23/14
Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator
Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder, Facebook, Cofounder, Asana, Cofounder, Good Ventures
Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I  — Why to Start a Startup

9/25/14
Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator
Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part II

9/30/14
Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator
Before the Startup

10/2/14
Adora Cheung, Founder, Homejoy
Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing

10/7/14
Peter Thiel, Founder, Paypal, Founder, Palantir, and Founder, Founders Fund
Competition is For Losers

10/9/14
Alex Schultz, VP Growth, Facebook
Growth

10/14/14
Kevin Hale, Founder, Wufoo and Partner, Y Combinator
How to Build Products Users Love

10/16/14
Walker Williams, Founder, Teespring
Justin Kan, Founder, Twitch and Partner, Y Combinator
Stanley Tang, Founder, DoorDash
Doing Things That Don’t Scale  PR How to Get Started

10/21/14
Marc Andreessen, Founder, Andreessen Horowitz and Founder, Netscape
Ron Conway, Founder, SV Angel
Parker Conrad, Founder, Zenefits
How to Raise Money

10/23/14
Alfred Lin, Former COO, Zappos and Partner, Sequoia Capital
Brian Chesky, Founder, Airbnb
Culture

10/28/14
Patrick Collison, Co-Founder, Stripe
John Collison, Co-Founder, Stripe
Ben Silbermann, Founder & CEO, Pinterest
Hiring and Culture, Part II

10/30/14
Aaron Levie, Founder, Box
Building for the Enterprise

11/4/14
Reid Hoffman, Partner, Greylock Ventures and Founder, LinkedIn
How To Be A Great Founder

11/6/14
Keith Rabois, Partner, Khosla Ventures
How to Operate

11/11/14
Ben Horowitz, Founder, Andreessen Horowitz, and Founder, and Opsware
How to Manage

11/13/14
Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO, Twitch
How to Run a User Interview

11/18/14
Hosain Rahman, Founder, Jawbone
How to Design Hardware Products

11/20/14
Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy, Partners, Y Combinator
Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups

12/2/14
Tyler Bosmeny, Founder and CEO, Clever
Michael Seibel, Partner, Y Combinator
Qasar Younis, Dalton Caldwell, Partners, Y Combinator
Sales and Marketing – How to Talk to Investors – Investor Meeting Roleplaying

12/4/14
Sam Altman, President, Y Combinator
Later-Stage Advice

Lecture 20