How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

So just a couple of notes. If you’ve noticed, a lot—maybe all—of the presenters thus far are YC people. That’s not going to end right now. However, the rest of the course is mostly, almost exclusively, perspectives on investing from outside of YC. So, don…

We are asked how does the current through R1 behave when the switch is open compared to the current through R1 when the switch is closed. Pause this video and see if you can figure that out. All right, so let’s just think about the two scenarios. We coul…

Jerry was reading about a study that looked at the connection between smartphone usage and happiness. Based on data from approximately 5,000 randomly selected teenagers, the study found that, on average, the teens who spent more time on smartphones were s…

In 2013, Eric Loomis was pulled over by the police for driving a car that had been used in a shooting—a shooting, mind you, that he wasn’t involved in at all. After getting arrested and taken to court, he pleaded guilty to attempting to flee an officer an…

I haven’t started with questions from Twitter before, but I feel like they kind of covered some of the initial ones I wanted to go off with, uh-huh. So maybe we should just go with those. All right, so the first one was from Ben Thompson, and he asked fo…

[Instructor] In this video, we’re gonna think about what happens when we multiply or divide by 10, 100, or 1,000. Let’s just start with an example. Let’s say we wanna figure out what 237 times 10 is. Pause this video and see if you can have a go at it. …