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    <h1><a href="/">How to Start a Startup</a> <a href="http://eepurl.com/3oe0H" class="btn btn-warning btn-sm"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-envelope"></span> Sign Up</a></h1>
<h3> Sam Altman <a href="https://twitter.com/sama" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-show-screen-name="true">Follow @sama</a></h3>
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<h3> Recommended Readings, to be read before watching the lecture: </h3>
<p>(Future readings are subject to change)</p>
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  <li>9/23/14, Lecture 1
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    <li>#1: <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds">Advice for Ambitious 19 year olds</a> by Sam Altman</li>
    <li>#2: <a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/good-and-bad-reasons-to-become-an-entrepreneur-decf0766de8d">Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur</a> by Dustin Moskovitz</li>
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  <li>9/25/14, Lecture 2
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    <li>#3: <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world">Stupid Apps and Changing the World</a> by Sam Altman</li>
    <li>#4: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ds.html">Do things that Don’t Scale</a> by Paul Graham</li>
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  <li>9/30/14, Lecture 3
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    <li>#5: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html">How to Get Startup Ideas</a> by Paul Graham</li>
    <li>#6: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Oxl5dAnR0&amp;t=1h10m53s">[video] Excerpt from Steve Jobs’s 1995 interview with Computerworld’s Oral History Project</a> - watch from 1:10:53 onwards</li>
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  <li>10/2/14, Lecture 4
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    <li>#7: <a href="http://wpcurve.com/homejoy-adora-cheung/">From Failure to $37M in Funding with Adora Chueng</a></li>
    <li>#8: <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/">Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing</a> by Jessica Livingston</li>
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  <li>10/7/14, Lecture 5
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    <li>#9: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujtrbcltiy6hgpy/ZtOChapters3-5.pdf?dl=0">Chapter 3-5 of Zero to One</a> by Peter Thiel</li>
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  <li>10/9/14, Lecture 6
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    <li>#10: <a href="https://medium.com/@joshelman/the-only-metric-that-matters-ab24a585b5ea">The only metric that matters</a> by Josh Elman</li>
    <li>#11: <a href="http://youtu.be/raIUQP71SBU?t=29s">[video] How we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users</a> - Chamath Palihapitiya <a href="http://blog.chrisbarber.co/transcript-how-we-put-facebook-on-the-path-to-1-billion-users">(User Provided Transcript)</a></a></li>
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  <li>10/14/14, Lecture 7
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  <li>#12: <a href="http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat">Your App Makes Me Fat</a> by Kathy Sierra</li>
  <li>#13: <a href="http://www.uie.com/articles/design_intuitive/">What Makes a Design Intuitive</a> by Jared Spool</li>
  <li>#14: <a href="http://vimeo.com/34081566">Creative mornings with Ben Chestnut [video]</a> - <a href="http://blog.chrisbarber.co/transcript-creative-mornings-with-ben-chestnut">(User Provided Transcript)</a></li>
  <li>#15: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/what-makes-marriage-work">What Makes Marriages Work</a> by John Gottman, Nan Silver</li>
  <li><strong>Bonus Material</strong>
    <ul>
    <li>BJ Fogg’s <a href="http://www.behaviormodel.org/">Behavior Model</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://hbr.org/1993/01/customer-intimacy-and-other-value-disciplines/ar/1">Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines</a>, Harvard Business Review</li>
    <li><a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/261/transcript">The Sanctity of Marriage</a>, This American Life</li>
    <li><a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Creating Passionate Users</a></li>
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	<h3> Sam Altman <a href="https://twitter.com/sama" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-show-screen-name="true">Follow @sama</a></h3>
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	<h3> Recommended Readings, to be read before watching the lecture: </h3>
	<p>(Future readings are subject to change)</p>
	<ul>
	<li>9/23/14, Lecture 1
	<ul>
	<li>#1: <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/advice-for-ambitious-19-year-olds">Advice for Ambitious 19 year olds</a> by Sam Altman</li>
	<li>#2: <a href="https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/good-and-bad-reasons-to-become-an-entrepreneur-decf0766de8d">Good and Bad Reasons to Become an Entrepreneur</a> by Dustin Moskovitz</li>
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	<li>9/25/14, Lecture 2
	<ul>
	<li>#3: <a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/stupid-apps-and-changing-the-world">Stupid Apps and Changing the World</a> by Sam Altman</li>
	<li>#4: <a href="http://paulgraham.com/ds.html">Do things that Don’t Scale</a> by Paul Graham</li>
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	</li>
	<li>9/30/14, Lecture 3
	<ul>
	<li>#5: <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html">How to Get Startup Ideas</a> by Paul Graham</li>
	<li>#6: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6Oxl5dAnR0&t=1h10m53s">[video] Excerpt from Steve Jobs’s 1995 interview with Computerworld’s Oral History Project</a> - watch from 1:10:53 onwards</li>
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	</li>
	<li>10/2/14, Lecture 4
	<ul>
	<li>#7: <a href="http://wpcurve.com/homejoy-adora-cheung/">From Failure to $37M in Funding with Adora Chueng</a></li>
	<li>#8: <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2014/06/03/jessica-livingston-why-startups-need-to-focus-on-sales-not-marketing/">Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing</a> by Jessica Livingston</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>10/7/14, Lecture 5
	<ul>
	<li>#9: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ujtrbcltiy6hgpy/ZtOChapters3-5.pdf?dl=0">Chapter 3-5 of Zero to One</a> by Peter Thiel</li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>10/9/14, Lecture 6
	<ul>
	<li>#10: <a href="https://medium.com/@joshelman/the-only-metric-that-matters-ab24a585b5ea">The only metric that matters</a> by Josh Elman</li>
	<li>#11: <a href="http://youtu.be/raIUQP71SBU?t=29s">[video] How we put Facebook on the path to 1 billion users</a> - Chamath Palihapitiya <a href="http://blog.chrisbarber.co/transcript-how-we-put-facebook-on-the-path-to-1-billion-users">(User Provided Transcript)</a></a></li>
	</ul>
	</li>
	<li>10/14/14, Lecture 7
	<ul>
	<li>#12: <a href="http://seriouspony.com/blog/2013/7/24/your-app-makes-me-fat">Your App Makes Me Fat</a> by Kathy Sierra</li>
	<li>#13: <a href="http://www.uie.com/articles/design_intuitive/">What Makes a Design Intuitive</a> by Jared Spool</li>
	<li>#14: <a href="http://vimeo.com/34081566">Creative mornings with Ben Chestnut [video]</a> - <a href="http://blog.chrisbarber.co/transcript-creative-mornings-with-ben-chestnut">(User Provided Transcript)</a></li>
	<li>#15: <a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200910/what-makes-marriage-work">What Makes Marriages Work</a> by John Gottman, Nan Silver</li>
	<li><strong>Bonus Material</strong>
	<ul>
	<li>BJ Fogg’s <a href="http://www.behaviormodel.org/">Behavior Model</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://hbr.org/1993/01/customer-intimacy-and-other-value-disciplines/ar/1">Customer Intimacy and Other Value Disciplines</a>, Harvard Business Review</li>
	<li><a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/261/transcript">The Sanctity of Marriage</a>, This American Life</li>
	<li><a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/">Creating Passionate Users</a></li>
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