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24 alternatives to Dorm Room Tycoon - Sam Altman

Sam outlines the future of Y Combinator

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dorm Room Tycoon - Sam Altman launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Dorm Room Tycoon - Funding the Next Visionaries with Sam Altman▲2
Sam outlines the future of Y Combinator
2015 · its alternatives →
2
TheFamily: Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator▲146
Sam Altman on Y Combinator and importance of AI
2016 · its alternatives →
3
Dorm Room Tycoon - Andy Weissman▲88
Behind the scenes of Union Square Ventures
2016 · its alternatives →
4
Y Combinator Startups▲159
An Interactive Database
2014 · its alternatives →
5
Startup Playbook▲22
Y Combinator's Playbook (by Sam Altman)
2015 · its alternatives →
6
How to Build the Future: Mark Zuckerberg▲461
The first episode in Y Combinator's new podcast series
2016 · its alternatives →
7
YC Startup Class▲230
A live, one-hour class by Sam Altman on Platzi
2015 · its alternatives →
8
EconTalk - Sam Altman▲66
StartUps, venture capital, and Y Combinator
2015 · its alternatives →
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Re/code Decode - Y Combinator's Sam Altman▲92
and the internet of things and Google
2015 · its alternatives →
10
YC Library▲810
The new hub for YC's startup videos, essays, podcasts & more
2023 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Startup School Radio - Ep 42: Gigster▲123
The beginnings and launch of Y Combinator-backed Gigster
2016 · its alternatives →
12
Y Combinator Podcast▲528
Y Combinators new podcast on starting a startup
2017 · its alternatives →
13
The Macro▲269
Stories from the Y Combinator world
2015 · its alternatives →
14
Y Combinator Co-founder Matching▲644
YC’s free online platform to help you find your co-founder
2021 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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Dorm Room Tycoon: Adam Lisagor▲77
How to make a startup video
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Y Combinator Codex▲8
2021 · phoe.github.io · its alternatives →
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YC Next, exclusive community for Y Combinator interviewees and aspirants▲32
2015 · ycnext.com · its alternatives →
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Startup School Radio - 23: Jessica Livingston & Zenflow▲79
Jessica Livingston shares Y Combinator's origin story
2015 · its alternatives →
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Startup Challenge ▲108
A learning game for Startup Class by Sam Altman
2014 · its alternatives →
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Dorm Room Tycoon - How to Grow your Startup, Josh Elman▲82
It starts by building a habit around your product
2015 · its alternatives →
21
Foundr Podcast 95: Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator▲66
What makes a successful startup with Jessica Livingston
2016 · its alternatives →
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The Twenty Minute VC: Mike Seibel, Partner @ Y Combinator▲63
What does YC look for in prospective founders?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Map of YC Startups▲104
Hey Everybody! Hope you had a merry christmas Today I had a bit of fun with Claude. Started by scraping YC's startups list, then ran them through OpenAI's embedding service, then UMAP'd the embedding to reduce the dimension to just two coordinates and then just forced Claude to write React that would compile to visualize that. I had fun and I think it's interesting, so take a look! Also note that you won't be able to zoom on mobile (found about this Plotly limitation way too late). If there's interest I can fix this issue by changing plotting libs tomorrow :) Merry christmas
2024 · yc-map.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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33 Voices: The Road to Y Combinator with Justin Kan▲60
Justin shares lessons learned from Justin.Tv and Twitch.
2016 · its alternatives →

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