Re:Stanford's new course on building a startup
by wilfra on Monday June 17, 2013 @10:30AM
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The class is the sequel to the class by Peter Thiel that covered those things. Unfortunately that class isn't available online, to my knowledge - but the Stanford students who first took that and then this would be learning both.
As somebody who is already reasonably good at the soft skills, I have really been looking forward to this class as a primer and entry point (though clearly not a silver bullet) to learn the technical skills.
Re:Stanford's new course on building a startup
by dncrane on Monday June 17, 2013 @02:38PM
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There are some good notes for Peter Thiel's class here: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
Most developers are already good at these things (or can learn them fairly quickly). The hard part of building a startup, at least for developers, is actually learning how to run a business and grow it. How to acquire users/customers, how to market, how to take care of all the "nasty but necessary" paperwork.