Peter Thiel on Startups: Notes on CS183

Blake Master's essay versions of his class notes from Stanford's CS183: Startup. http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup Class 1: The Challenge of the Future Class 2: Party Like it's 1999? Class 3: Value Systems Class 4: The Last Mover Advantage (escaping competition) Class 5: The Mechanics of Mafia (culture) Class 6: Thiel's Law (origin, founders, financing) Class 7: Follow The Money (venture capital) Class 8: The Pitch Class 9: If You Build It, Will They Come? (distribution) Class 10: After Web 2.0 Class 11: Secrets Class 12: War and Peace (capitalistic competition) Class 13: You Are Not A Lottery Ticket (luck, outlook, planning) Class 14: Seeing Green (cleantech & renewable energy) Class 15: Back to the Future (where the future has failed) Class 16: Decoding Ourselves (biology & longevity) Class 17: Deep Thought (artificial intelligence) Class 18: Founder as Victim, Founder as God Class 19: Stagnation or Singularity?