Lecture #1
1. What are the primary advantages of peer-to-peer education?
2. What is, in Mr. Ralston’s opinion, absolutely vital to startup success?
3. What variables are crucial for a startup when choosing the most appropriate metric?

Lecture #2
1. What impact does eligibility for being advertised word-of-mouth have on a startup?
2. Reflect on Mr. Altman’s stance on the team building. Is it the same as the company? How do the two relate?
3. What should a new venture have in it to compete with—and eventually beat—a big-name rival?

Lecture #3
1. Why file 83(b) election forms? And what is worth paying careful attention to when doing so?
2. In what markets does filing a patent application make sense? Why?
3. “Advisors are investors who want stock for free.” Do you agree with this statement?

Lecture #4
1. “Necessity is the mother of invention.” How does this phrase relate to Mr. Graham’s Via Web?
2. To scale or not to scale: what is better for an early startup?
3. Is over-raising a bad thing? Provide reasoning.

Lecture #5
1. How can one create a market?
2. What is the difference between the minimum viable product and minimum remarkable product? What is the right time to launch?
3. What are the metrics Mr. Rusenko suggests using?

Lecture #6
1. What is the optimal pricing strategy to start with?
2. Is Google Analytics suitable for measuring startup success? If yes, in what specific cases could it be of great value?
3. What is the fundamental difference between pivoting and iterating? When to utilize either?

Lecture #8
1. Why do early adopters matter? How would you personally try to get one?
2. What is the silver lining of attracting less venture capital than your competitors?
3. What is wrong with founders attempting to hedge against themselves while pitching? What would be a better approach?

Lecture #9
1. Reflect on Mr. Doshi’s formula for growth.
2. How to assess why the business is not growing?
3. How to measure people coming back (i.e., retention)? What impact does this have long-term?

Lecture #10
1. What are the ways to grow at scale, according to Mr. Alströmer?
2. How to compose a referral invite e-mail that will convert?
3. What growth channel would you suggest for Minter blockchain? Elaborate.

Lecture #11
1. What concerns do you personally have over the rapid growth of the ICO industry?
2. What is CoinList’s value proposition?
3. Let’s suppose you have raised some amount in an ICO or IEO. What is the mechanism for further distribution of funds?

Lectures #12 and #13
1. What is the sequential order of designs you need to decide on?
2. If you were to make a design trade-off between scope, quality, and time, which two would you pick?
3. Based on consumer psychology, what would an ideal CTA button look like? Describe it.

Lecture #14
1. Why, in your opinion, is press not a scalable user acquisition strategy?
2. Choose a primary platform to promote Minter-related content. Explain your choice.
3. Why is publishing press releases a good thing for search engine optimization (SEO)? In what cases will it have no effect?

Lecture #15
1. Where does someone need to start if they are looking to do fundraising in the future?
2. What is the concept of an addressable market? Give an example.
3. What does the allocation of capital attracted during a seed round depend on?

Lecture #16
1. What does the funnel consist of? Describe one for an ICO project.
2. Name at least two methods to reach out to companies you would like to bring on board.
3. Which is better: a free trial or a 30-day cancellation period on an annual contract?

Lecture #17
1. What does a hiring funnel consist of?
2. How could good credentials spoil the whole process?
3. Let’s suppose you don’t have enough technical expertise but have to interview a tech guy to see if you’re a good fit. Any ideas?

Lecture #18
1. Give a few good reasons to not apply to YC.
2. What is the importance of clarity? How to reach it?
3. List a few tips you would use to prepare for an interview with YC.

Lecture #19
1. What makes for a successful co-founding relationship?
2. What was the important thing that Stripe as a company was not really great at?
3. What is the major difference between consumer and B2B use cases?

Lecture #20
1. What was the disruption that Science Exchange brought?
2. You are working in academia and trying to start a company at the same time. What is the biggest potential conflict?
3. What does an MVP mean in the biotech industry?

Lecture #21
1. There is a trade-off one has to make between engineering best practices and writing code as quickly as possible and delivering something. What is more important?
2. What is, in your opinion, the best engineering methodology to implement inside an organization?
3. What are the benefits of hiring remote employees? And drawbacks?

Lecture #22
1. What is a rule of thumb in attracting capital?
2. What is a convertible?
3. What is dilution? Give an example.

Lecture #23
1. Why was stocking up on inventory a big mistake for Pebble back in the day?
2. What is the problem with the iteration cycles in hard tech?
3. How do you get your first 1–50 customers? Name some examples from the hard tech market.

Lecture #24
1. What formula would you use to understand how much of the company is sold?
2. What is the option pool?
3. How are SAFEs and convertible debt different?

Lecture #25
1. Hiring, user acquisition, and customer service. Out of the three, what is the most plausible reason to raise funds for?
2. What types of meetings would you normally expect to have with prospective investors?
3. What is considered bad behavior?

Lecture #26
1. What should a CEO be spending most of their time doing?
2. Why do you think it is that so many teams choose such bad markets?
3. How could time-management skills help one with pitching? Name one particular situation mentioned by Mr. Gil.

Lecture #27
1. What did FriendFeed ultimately miss?
2. Who replaced their entire management team after turning down a $1 billion acquisition deal? Was it right?
3. What is the example of the amplification in fundraising?

Lecture #28
1. One great sign for the company’s product is having high retention. What is the other?
2. Who would you talk to, people who are paying more, or those who are not? Why?
3. How to inform your consumers that you are going to charge them more?

Lecture #29
1. For first-time founders, is it essential to have previously reported to a leader they respect?
2. How to set yourself up for a winner’s mindset? Give an idea or two.
3. What does Kegan’s theory of adult development imply?

Lecture #30
1. Why did most of the companies that were initially successful around the Amazon catalog all fail?
2. What are the types of innovation that happen at Amazon?
3. What is the “working backward” concept? Is it the right thing to embrace?