Blake Master's notes from Peter Thiel's Spring 2012 Stanford Class, CS183: Startup
This is the starting place for building a startup. Think of these notes as a philosophy of business and startup strategy. In the way you want to read Plato's Republic to understand philosophy, you want to read this to understand startups.
- Challenging the Future
- Party Like It's 1999
- Value Systems
- Last Mover Advantage
- Mechanics of Mafia
- Thiel's Law
- Follow the Money
- The Pitch
- If You Build It, Will They Come?
- After Web 2.0
- Secrets
- War & Peace
- You Are Not a Lottery Ticket
- Seeing Green
- Back to the Future
- Decoding Ourselves
- Deep Thought
- Founder As Victim, Founder As God
- Stagnation or Singularity
These notes capture Blake Master's experience sitting in Peter Thiels' CS183 Stanford class in Spring of 2012.