How to Start a Startup

The 20-lecture Stanford course, sequenced into 8 chapters you run once, in order.

A cumulative course path through Stanford CS183B — Altman, Graham, Cheung, Thiel, Schultz, Hale, Chesky, Hoffman, Levie, Horowitz, and more — from whether to start through PMF, culture, fundraising, and mechanics. Each chapter names its source lecture(s) and builds on the one before it, with a practice you run before moving on.

This is the course path, not the pocket guide or the essay archive: chapters map to specific CS183B lectures and speakers, run in sequence, and assume you completed the last one. For a fast non-sequential refresher, see YC OS; for single-essay deep dives, see PG Canon.