Business & management
How to Start a Startup (Y Combinator, 2014 Lectures)
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About this course
The famous startup course from Y Combinator, first taught at Stanford in 2014: Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Brian Chesky, Ben Horowitz and other founders and investors on building a startup from the first idea to a large company. Who it's for: aspiring founders, early-stage teams and students interested in entrepreneurship. The lectures are arranged in their original order; one video in the playlist is private on YouTube and is not included. These are the free, official videos of the "How to Start a Startup (2014 Lectures)" playlist from the Y Combinator YouTube channel (youtube.com/@ycombinator). All videos belong to Y Combinator; Sikhami is not affiliated with Y Combinator and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.
What you will learn
• Ideas, products, teams and execution • Building products users love, talking to users and running user interviews • Growth, and doing things that don't scale • Competition and strategy, with Peter Thiel • How to raise money • Hiring, culture, and how to manage and operate a company • Legal and accounting basics for startups • Building for the enterprise, hardware products, and later-stage advice
This course at a glance
- Lectures
- 19 video lectures
- Video
- 15h 26m in all
- Level
- Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional
- Language
- English
- Access
- Lifetime access
- Certificate
- On completion
Lectures last updated September 2026
Course content
1 section · 19 lectures · 15h 26m
1. How to Start a Startup (2014 Lectures)
- Ideas, Products, Teams, and Execution with Dustin Moskovitz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 1)44m
- Team and Execution with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 2)46m
- Before the Startup with Paul Graham (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 3)48m
- Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing with Adora Cheung (How to Start a Startup 2014: 4)52m
- Competition is for Losers with Peter Thiel (How to Start a Startup 2014: 5)50m
- Growth with Alex Schultz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 6)47m
- How to Build Products Users Love with Kevin Hale (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 7)48m
- How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)52m
- How to Raise Money with Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, and Parker Conrad (HtSaS 2014: 9)50m
- Culture with Brian Chesky and Alfred Lin (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 10)50m
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- Hiring and Culture with Patrick and John Collison and Ben Silbermann (HtSaS 2014: 11)50m
- Building for the Enterprise with Aaron Levie (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 12)46m
- How to Be a Great Founder with Reid Hoffman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 13)49m
- How to Operate with Keith Rabois (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 14)46m
- How to Manage with Ben Horowitz (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 15)50m
- How to Run a User Interview with Emmett Shear (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 16)46m
- How to Design Hardware Products with Hosain Rahman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 17)47m
- Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups with Kirsty Nathoo and Carolynn Levy (HtSaS 2014: 18)48m
- Later Stage Advice with Sam Altman (How to Start a Startup 2014: Lecture 20)48m
How long it takes
15h 26m of video in 19 lectures. Pick a pace that suits you:
Steady
about 4 weeks
at 30 minutes a day
Regular
about 2 weeks
at 1 hour a day
Fast track
8 days
at 2 hours a day
Video time only: practice takes a little longer. Your place in every lecture is saved, so you can stop any time.
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Who teaches it
Sikhami InstituteNew Delhi · 297 courses · 694 learners · 473 followersSikhami Institute is Sikhami's own institute for free learning. We pick some of the best free courses on YouTube, from Harvard's CS50, MIT, NPTEL, Khan Academy, Google, Microsoft, the BBC, Crash Course, PW, Magnet Brains, CodeWithHarry and many more, and turn them into proper courses on Sikhami that you can follow lesson by lesson while your progress is saved.
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Is this course free?
Yes. Joining is free, and the lectures unlock as soon as you join. Once you join, it is yours for life.
How long is the course?
19 video lectures, 15h 26m of video in all. At an hour a day, the videos take about 2 weeks. You learn at your own pace; there are no fixed class times.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes. When you have watched every lecture, you can claim a certificate of completion. It has its own page and code, so anyone can check that it is real. About certificates
What language is it taught in?
English.
Can I learn on my phone?
Yes. Watch on the website or in the Sikhami app for Android with the same account. Your place in every lecture is saved, so you can switch between them.
Can I ask the teacher a doubt?
Yes. Ask it in the questions on the course page, or from inside any lecture while you watch. You can also keep your own notes on each lecture.
Who made these videos?
The lectures are the free, public videos of the YouTube playlist "How to Start a Startup (2014 Lectures)", and they belong to their creator. Sikhami arranges them into a course, so you can learn one lecture at a time and keep track of your progress.
