Do you (generic you) think this could scale with something like a franchise model?
Consider: there is a local Startup School "Dojo" where a number of founders come together to watch the lectures.
Instead of passing through all the questions, they try to solve the problems themselves and then escalate some common problems to office hours.
I am just trying to think of ways that you -- or anyone -- could spread the startup gospel to all 50,000 and eventually more.
Someone might say: You can always start your own study group. Response: True, but you want feedback from people who have gone through a few successful startup cycles. Ycombinator has credibility.
I think it's hard. With YC, the ongoing benefit from the founders' end is really the network. I think a franchise type model would really dilute that, and you'd end up with the "real" YC and everything else.
To provide an example, consider law schools and the ABA versus medical schools and the AAMC:
There are many ABA-accredited law schools, from which a degree will allow you to sit for the bar exam in a given state. The "real" law schools (let's say the Top 14 for now, with full disclosure that I attended a much shittier law school) provide a very similar education to everyone else even down through Tier 4. The network gets you hired into the big firms with greater ease from HLS and the rest of the Top 14. Everyone else has the same law license (provided they pass the bar), but the opportunities are markedly different for most. And before any fellow Tier 3/4'ers want to flame me for this, come on, you 100% know it's true. I think I've done pretty well, but I also stopped practicing law to do it.
Now, an AAMC-accredited education, on the other hand, provides a lot more parity out of the gate when it comes to opportunity. Med school slots roughly match up with the number of residency slots in a given year, and more or less everyone matches. Not everyone gets to do Ortho/Plastic, but that has more to do with how well you did in med school, versus which med school you attended. The school itself still factors for some specialties, but not nearly to the degree that it would in law. You can be a pretty average med student and still walk out with a residency, license and reasonably good income.
Seriously interested in this. Was looking over the partner benefits and noticed the Clerky bit mentioned access to the fundraising beta for people who use Clerky for incorporating. So ... if someone already did the work a month ago to incorporate, and was chosen, they'd lose access to that service?
10:1 (I'm guessing) sounds like pretty a high contention ratio for a MOOC.
I'd be fascinated to see how this compares with the ratios for YC proper (as well as others like the Fellowships).
[Edit note: I misread the post originally, and got 50:1, which I found more surprising.]
One clarification: is the Startup Founder track form out now or will it be published later on. By the text of the blog, it sounds like it's all ready to go - but no link to such a form can be found.
[+] [-] startupdiscuss|9 years ago|reply
Consider: there is a local Startup School "Dojo" where a number of founders come together to watch the lectures.
Instead of passing through all the questions, they try to solve the problems themselves and then escalate some common problems to office hours.
I am just trying to think of ways that you -- or anyone -- could spread the startup gospel to all 50,000 and eventually more.
Someone might say: You can always start your own study group. Response: True, but you want feedback from people who have gone through a few successful startup cycles. Ycombinator has credibility.
[+] [-] SmellTheGlove|9 years ago|reply
To provide an example, consider law schools and the ABA versus medical schools and the AAMC:
There are many ABA-accredited law schools, from which a degree will allow you to sit for the bar exam in a given state. The "real" law schools (let's say the Top 14 for now, with full disclosure that I attended a much shittier law school) provide a very similar education to everyone else even down through Tier 4. The network gets you hired into the big firms with greater ease from HLS and the rest of the Top 14. Everyone else has the same law license (provided they pass the bar), but the opportunities are markedly different for most. And before any fellow Tier 3/4'ers want to flame me for this, come on, you 100% know it's true. I think I've done pretty well, but I also stopped practicing law to do it.
Now, an AAMC-accredited education, on the other hand, provides a lot more parity out of the gate when it comes to opportunity. Med school slots roughly match up with the number of residency slots in a given year, and more or less everyone matches. Not everyone gets to do Ortho/Plastic, but that has more to do with how well you did in med school, versus which med school you attended. The school itself still factors for some specialties, but not nearly to the degree that it would in law. You can be a pretty average med student and still walk out with a residency, license and reasonably good income.
YC is more like #2.
[+] [-] sandslash|9 years ago|reply
Quite a few communities have reached out about doing study groups, and I'm excited to hear their feedback.
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[Edit note: I misread the post originally, and got 50:1, which I found more surprising.]
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