Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders?

Posted by richardreeze on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I've found a few interesting online courses while browsing "startup Twitter."

They're related to different topics, but here they are:

1. [Productivity] Building a second brain (https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/)

2. [Growth] Demand Curve (https://www.demandcurve.com/)

3. [Growth] Reforge (https://www.reforge.com/)

4. [Product] Hooked Online Workshop (https://courses.nirandfar.com/)

Do you know of other courses like these? (I guess what they have in common is that they're startup-related)

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by semicolonandson on Sunday November 15, 2020 @05:33AM (#25099988)

For those reading this thread whose products or ambitions are more along the "indie hacker"/bootstrapper lines, I've got a bunch of screencasts talking about my experiences over a 10 year period building and living completely from the income of a (Rails/JS) web app (Oxbridge Notes) I built as a one man show.

The screencast topics include everything from getting an MVP out, to a tour of my web app and its admin area, to SEO/Google Analytics/online marketing strategies, to some system design stuff to make maintaining the code easier.

https://www.semicolonandsons.com/series/get-your-first-1000-...

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by ian0 on Saturday November 14, 2020 @04:17AM (#25091140)

Perhaps the best I have come across is y-combinators own "How to start a startup"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIJaCMEptJjxmmQgGFsnCg/vid...

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by Jugurtha on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:18PM (#25094806)

- How to Start a Startup (YC)

- How to Build a Startup (Steve Blank on Udacity)

- CS183/Zero to One (Peter Thiel)

- CS184: Startup Engineering (Balaji S. Srinivasan)

Best:

Pando Monthly: interviews by Sarah Lacy with founders and VCs. Many go for two or three hours. She goes beyond the PR story and touches on details, doubts, decisions.

This Week in Startups: interviews by Jason Calacanis. You'll learn things that are not in the PR story. Check out the Uber interview with Travis Kalanick for some gore inceptions details..

- Founders at Work (book by Jessica Livingston)

- any book you find by someone who's done it before. VCs, founders, etc. Relevant books can be Jordan Mechner's book about Prince of Persia, Eric Schmidt about Google, Masters of Doom. These contain gems about crucial moments and how people went about doing things, building product, distribution, relations. Peeking behind the curtain.

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by jitendrac on Saturday November 14, 2020 @08:23AM (#25092149)

https://www.startupschool.org/ Current batch just started, its free.

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by TechNerds on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:54AM (#25125189)

If you are interested in learning about SEO. Ahrefs blog (www.ahrefs.com/blog) is a good starting point. If you want to learn about general marketing tips and tricks (www.marketingexamples.com) is a good choice.

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by slipwalker on Monday November 16, 2020 @03:51PM (#25116845)

my 2 cents:

As an FBI hostage negotiator, Chris Voss persuaded terrorists, bank robbers, and kidnappers to see things his way

https://www.masterclass.com/classes/chris-voss-teaches-the-a...

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by AlchemistCamp on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:29AM (#25092839)

Are you specifically looking for $1000+ courses?

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Re:Ask HN: Best online courses for startup founders? by itsjustrahul on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:55AM (#25126032)

I can really vouch for Reforge.

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