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Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman

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Paul Graham and Sam Altman host live office hours at Startup School 2013, giving feedback and advice to early-stage startup founders.

Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman CodeCombat: George Saines, Nick Winter 100: Karen Cheng and Finbarr Taylor Flexport: Ryan Petersen

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What people say. Recommended as a classic resource showing how Paul Graham and Sam Altman analyze and refine early-stage startup ideas.

quadratureon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT”

I agree its really great of them, you can watch office hour sessions on youtube from the Startup School that YC runs link to this video
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dmndon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Freight Startups Attract Silicon Valley’s Attention”

Flexport is hiring engineers: link As an engineer starting at Flexport in a couple of weeks, here are some more interesting resources that shaped my thinking: Interview with Ryan Petersen (Flexport CEO) link Office hours at startup school 2013 with pg & sama link to this video I also happened to have recently read Zero to One. Plus, Flexport has an appealing mission. Removing friction in something as basic as shipping makes pretty much everyone in the world better off.
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PaulJoslinon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Show HN: We built our startup in 100 days”

…at the video got and the requests from people wanting to achieve similar? (Just curious from a marketing point of view whether you planned for the dance video to go viral to boost your idea or whether you saw an untapped market due to the popularity of the video and decided to fill it) ---- EDIT - Just got my question answered by watching this : link to this video - I'm glad that it was an idea that came out of the viral consequence of the original video, rather than the original plan all along. Also just realised that the woman learning to walk video I saw today on r/GetMotivated was submitted by you / part of the same project. I can see pg's mind turning over in the office hours video, trying to un…
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iMuzzon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Write Code, Crush Foes, Get Hired – Multiplayer Programming Tournament”

I remember seeing these guys get accepted to Ycombinator on stage at at Start Up School 2013. Cool concept! Here's the link if anyone is interested. link to this video
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myth_busteron Hacker News • Mentions

On “Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday from 11 am to 1 pm PDT”

It's like in the university where you could drop by at your professor's office to discuss on topics or problems. This 0 should give you a better idea. 0 link to this video
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tim333on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Flexport (YC W14) and the freight-forwarding business”

It's an interesting business. I'm impressed that >DHL “bought three of the biggest freight forwarders for $15 billion, then spent $960 million with IBM for an IT backbone, and that failed. They wrote it off completely.” You'd think IBM could do such stuff. See also Office Hours at Startup School 2013 with Paul Graham and Sam Altman link to this video
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thwartedon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Read This Before You Build Uber for X”

This is a decent writeup because it defines what "an uber" is and what it means to be a business like that. How many "Uber for X" businesses label themselves that way because of interactions like this one, where customers and investors are so focused on Uber as some kind of canonical startup that there's attempts to squeeze unrelated business models into it? link to this video (specifically 21m56s and 24m9s) This video is four years old, so it's good to know that claims of "Uber of X" are getting long in the tooth. It'll help to start agreeing on definitions and get away from the buzzwords.
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fireworks10on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation”

Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open 'Office Hours' at Startup School in 2013. link to this video
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leovanderon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)”

There's a lot of money to make for the freight forwarding companies. A lot of container owners charge you fully knowing that your product may get caught up in customs and they make their money on late fees. As a user of this product, I think you probably get better visibility of where your contents are in the overall process and access to customs agents, which that in itself would help cut your overall costs down if you know that your items were categorized correctly on your customs forms, preventing the above from happening. The founder talking about it at startup school. link to this video
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aerosmileon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Airbnbs”

As someone who went through YC and met PG while he was still actively running it, I can tell you that at least in our batch he was 100% spot on about who was going to do well. He had a tendency to spend his free time with the same individuals who ended up doing phenomenally well. It would be easy to be dismissive about this and say something about doubling down on his best investments, etc. But during our batch many of those companies had not yet become the clear cut winners that they are today, and instead only turned into them a year or so down the road. One of the best companies from our batch is Flexport, and PG had been super impressed by Ryan Petersen even before he was officially acce…
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