Is there any information about how the class will work?
The non-virtual version of this class is heavily team based, and people are expected to go and find customers and actually talk to them(!). The workload is also quite heavy - I believe around 20 hours per week.
How will the team part work for the online class?
Edit: also, on the off chance anyone is thinking about teams already, I'd be interested in talking.
Not sure if I'm smart enough to figure out how to make teams work virtually for 1,000's of thousands of students at a time. (Can't figure out how to grade progress on this scale.)
I'm leaning to have the class teach individual entrepreneurs the basics of how to build a startup using the business model canvas, customer development and agile engineering.
Think of it as a step-by-step guide to building a startup. An advanced version of the Four Steps to the Epiphany updated for web/mobile/cloud, etc.
I took an entrepreneurial class that sounds like this at Georgia Tech, run by Merrick Furst (who has now started up the an incubator of sorts => http://flashpoint.gatech.edu). The course was team based, go out and iterate. Every time to class you found out what you did wrong over the past week so you'd go and redo part of it.
I suspect this course is going to be rather similar, but different perspectives are always good.
Or at least have a greater www.stanford-classes.edu, to show all of them.
But the need for a own domain, is to make it easier when the class really starts. Its easier, to use your own domain, that have a leanlauchlab.stanford.edu.
But the point is, its a wonderful news! Congrats Stanford!
It looks like a decentralized movement where willing professors (starting with DB, ML and AI) came up with one platform and different sites and encouraged others to do the same. I am sure at some point they will merge all of them.
It isn't just Stanford classes--the SAAS class is from Berkeley. However, having a hub of such classes from different universities would be really awesome.
This is a life time opportunity any entrepreneur or a soon-to-be entrepreneur will never like to miss. Specially those who are not in US or out of Valley.
I am no quite sure if I should take this class - or the Entrepreneurship one for that matter. I am busy start a startup. This classes will probably take quite some time and I can't really imagine, what I could possibly learn form them, that I haven't picked up from various resources linked here over time. What do you think?
So there is nothing Steve Blank could teach you that you don't already know? Besides, these classes involve getting into teams and trying out the concepts from class (and might have read about on HN) in the real world. I think you might learn a lot.
What a great opportunity! For someone like me who lives in India, this is a fantastic opportunity to learn from Steve Blank himself.
His book has changed the way I work but I feel there is a whole world of difference in actually learning from him in a class room format, doing exercises and taking it step by step.
[+] [-] nl|14 years ago|reply
The non-virtual version of this class is heavily team based, and people are expected to go and find customers and actually talk to them(!). The workload is also quite heavy - I believe around 20 hours per week.
How will the team part work for the online class?
Edit: also, on the off chance anyone is thinking about teams already, I'd be interested in talking.
[+] [-] sblank|14 years ago|reply
I'm leaning to have the class teach individual entrepreneurs the basics of how to build a startup using the business model canvas, customer development and agile engineering.
Think of it as a step-by-step guide to building a startup. An advanced version of the Four Steps to the Epiphany updated for web/mobile/cloud, etc.
Thoughts?
[+] [-] caw|14 years ago|reply
I took an entrepreneurial class that sounds like this at Georgia Tech, run by Merrick Furst (who has now started up the an incubator of sorts => http://flashpoint.gatech.edu). The course was team based, go out and iterate. Every time to class you found out what you did wrong over the past week so you'd go and redo part of it.
I suspect this course is going to be rather similar, but different perspectives are always good.
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(asking because right now AI and ML require quite some time and I want to do other technical classes starting january ^^)
[+] [-] giulivo|14 years ago|reply
Did you find the course schedule or some more detailed informations about them?
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But the point is, its a wonderful news! Congrats Stanford!
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His book has changed the way I work but I feel there is a whole world of difference in actually learning from him in a class room format, doing exercises and taking it step by step.
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