{"id":8554,"date":"2016-09-18T18:06:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T22:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2016-10-09T19:46:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T23:46:40","slug":"what-they-do-teach-at-y-combinator-at-tuesday-mentorship-dinners-and-cs-183s-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/what-they-do-teach-at-y-combinator-at-tuesday-mentorship-dinners-and-cs-183s-b\/","title":{"rendered":"What They DO Teach at Y Combinator {at Tuesday mentorship dinners and CS 183s&#8217; [b]}"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Stanford engineering has a bunch of cool new classes.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image1-19.jpg\" alt=\"image1.JPG\" id=\"8C5A55D1-1799-4882-8AE7-CE5B3333C10F\">\n<\/div>\n<div>Stanford Engineering CS 183b, #cs183c and other #cs183s&#8217;, center around entrepreneurship education. A lot of <span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">doing things that don&#8217;t scale is transferring knowledge about promotion, distribution, getting early traction and promoting your beta-product<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23startupschool&amp;src=hash\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">#startupSchool<\/a>&nbsp;had a first speaker that&#8217;s Stanford engineering trained via Engineering 145, &#8220;Technology Entrepreneurship&#8221;. September 17, 2016,&nbsp;<\/font><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooshma\">@ooshma<\/a>&nbsp;spoke.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/755459772799815680\/Kztn1F6g_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Tiffany Yu (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imtiffanyyu?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@ImTiffanyYu<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imtiffanyyu\/status\/777213985057681408?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">9\/17\/16, 11:33 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">What&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ycombinator\">@ycombinator<\/a>&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t tell you: if you meet with your customers, you&#8217;ll discover WHY we do we do.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooshma\">@ooshma<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gobbleinc\">@gobbleinc<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23startupschool&amp;src=hash\">#startupschool<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image3-8.jpg\" alt=\"image3.JPG\" id=\"70B1150A-3D42-4EA9-91DD-AB3DA3993476\"><br \/>\n&#8220;doing things that don&#8217;t scale, But Have Momentum&#8221; = #dttdsBHM<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<table style=\"border: 1px solid black; padding: 8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/613751289587957760\/ZN0VKUOa_normal.jpg\" style=\"width: 48px; height: 48px; padding-right: 8px;\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td><b style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Larry Chiang (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/larrychiang\/status\/777602992631521280?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><font color=\"#000000\">9\/18\/16, 1:19 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">In my expert opinion&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooshma\">@ooshma<\/a>, that was YC prior to ~&#8217;11. Now&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23cs183yC&amp;src=hash\">#cs183yC<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday dinners are chock full o&#8217; &#8220;distribution sales etc&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImTiffanyYu\">@ImTiffanyYu<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\nFOR EXAMPLE, Sam Altman&#8217;s class CS 183b in 2014. Lec 3, &#8220;doing things that don&#8217;t scale&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/image2-12.jpg\" alt=\"image2.JPG\" id=\"6A9FA7B0-C6C3-4DAF-B07E-ECCCB60ED7B5\"><br \/>\nSam Altman and&nbsp;<\/span><font color=\"#000000\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooshma\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">@ooshma<\/a>&nbsp;pow wow about&nbsp;<\/font><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">doing things that don&#8217;t scale (BUT HAVE MOMENTUM)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"border:1px solid black;padding:8px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"bottom\">\n<td width=\"48\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/716641091311697920\/hFFVBhFe_normal.jpg\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;padding-right:8px;\"><\/td>\n<td><b>Y Combinator (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ycombinator?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">@ycombinator<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ycombinator\/status\/777213030639677440?refsrc=email&amp;s=11\">9\/17\/16, 11:30 AM<\/a><\/div>\n<div>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ooshma\">@ooshma<\/a> talks about doing things that don&#8217;t scale while building Gobble <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bKoOMkNMVV\"><span>pic.twitter.com\/bKoOMkNMVV<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Stanford engineering videos on my channel help you set the bell curve by <span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><i><b>doing things that don&#8217;t scale<\/b><\/i><\/span>:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&amp;sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Larry Chiang Stanford engineering has a bunch of cool new classes.&nbsp; Stanford Engineering CS 183b, #cs183c and other #cs183s&#8217;, center around entrepreneurship education. 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