Entrepreneurship
Turn a project into a company: validation, users, and shipping.
EntrepreneurshipIntermediateLaunching Your Startup (Y Combinator)
How to launch (and re-launch), recruit your first users by hand, and do the un-glamorous, un-scalable work that wins early traction — taught by Y Combinator partners Kat Mañalac, Dalton Caldwell, and Michael Seibel.
132 lessonsStart
EntrepreneurshipIntermediateHow Justin Welsh Built an $8M Solo Business
Ex-SaaS VP of Sales Justin Welsh on the playbook he used to leave the startup grind after burnout and build a one-person business: niche down, build a daily content habit on LinkedIn, and stack high-margin digital products.
121 lessonStart
EntrepreneurshipBeginnerHow to Get Your First Customers (Y Combinator)
YC partner and former Airbnb growth lead Gustaf Alströmer gives the tactical playbook for the zero-to-one customer problem: doing things that don't scale, founders doing the selling, and charging from day one.
101 lessonStart
EntrepreneurshipBeginnerValidating Your Idea (Y Combinator)
Two foundational YC Startup School talks: how to evaluate whether a startup idea is worth pursuing, and how to talk to users so you hear real demand instead of polite encouragement.
102 lessonsStart
EntrepreneurshipIntermediateStartup Pricing 101 (Kevin Hale)
YC partner and Wufoo co-founder Kevin Hale on why pricing is the highest-leverage growth lever most founders ignore — and concrete frameworks (the pricing thermometer, the 10x rule, the 5% / 20% test) for setting prices that map to value.
101 lessonStart
EntrepreneurshipBeginnerThe Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make (Michael Seibel)
Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel runs through the repeat-offender mistakes he sees in early founders — from picking the wrong problem and the wrong co-founder to delaying launch and ignoring analytics.
81 lessonStart
EntrepreneurshipAdvancedFundraising Fundamentals (Y Combinator)
An advanced primer on raising your first round — straight from Y Combinator. Start by getting honest about whether and when to raise, then learn the mechanics of SAFEs, post-money caps, dilution, and priced rounds.
82 lessonsStart
EntrepreneurshipIntermediateProduct-Market Fit & Early Growth (Y Combinator)
Two foundational Y Combinator Startup School talks: Michael Seibel on what real product-market fit actually looks like (and what fakes it), then Gustaf Alstromer on measuring PMF with retention and choosing the right growth channels.
72 lessonsStart
EntrepreneurshipAdvancedThe Indie Hacker's Playbook (Marc Lou x Greg Isenberg)
Marc Lou — the French solo dev behind ShipFast doing seven figures from a laptop — sits down with Greg Isenberg to break down his frameworks for pricing, content marketing, gamification, and shipping product after product as a solopreneur.
61 lessonStart