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Sharing all the context I've gathered

If you're looking to learn how to build a startup, start here. Once you go through these resources, there’s no fixed roadmap—only exploration.

Will be discussing two things:

Startup Context

The hard thing to build in this is not the "gyan", "lessons". The hard thing is to build "passion", "inspiration". And honestly I do not know how to make someone wanna do startups, to ignite the fire is really hard. But there are some traits:

So these are some traits, how can you build passion/these-traits?

Watching good content and being around people like that helps.

I highly recommend reading Lesson 1 of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (recommended reading side by side the coursework not all at once).

And watching this video of Travis (founder of Uber) at IIT Bombay and old podcasts of Varun Mayya.

So now when we are done with lighting the fire lets go ahead with textbook lessons on startups:

  1. YC How to Start a Startup (till lecture number 14) --> watch them, rewatch them. I have watched each lecture at least 4 times by now.
  2. Paul Graham top 10 essays:
    1. How to Start a Startup
    2. Do Things that Don't Scale
    3. Startup = Growth
    4. Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
    5. Ideas for Startups
    6. The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
    7. How to Get Startup Ideas
    8. Be Good
    9. What Startups Are Really Like
    10. The Hacker’s Guide to Investors
  3. Read The Almanack of Naval Ravikant and Zero to One.
  4. Sajith Pai:
  5. Kunal Shah Delta 4 framework: watch here.

Technical Context

If you have never coded before, watch this too: CS50x lectures.

Now after completing all these, we will now move to React and Node.js. Will be studying them through the course of Harkirat Singh (some link I'll add later).

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