By: Sam Altman, who taught this class at Stanford in Fall 2014

Lecture 1 - How to Start a Startup (Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz)

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook, Asana, and Good Ventures, kick off the How to Start a Startup Course. Sam covers the first 2 of the 4 Key Areas: Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution; and Dustin discusses Why to Start a Startup.

See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec01/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBYhVcO4WgI

Lecture 2 - Team and Execution (Sam Altman)

Sam Altman finishes up "Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution" by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a Startup.

See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVfnkM44Urs

Lecture 3 - Before the Startup (Paul Graham)

Paul Graham delivers an informative (and highly amusing) talk, addressing counterintuitive parts of startups, in Lecture 3 of How to Start a Startup.

See the readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec03/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii1jcLg-eIQ