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.

1. Challenging the Future
2. Party Like It's 1999
3. Value Systems
4. Last Mover Advantage
5. Mechanics of Mafia
6. Thiel's Law
7. Follow the Money
8. The Pitch
9. If You Build It, Will They Come?
10. After Web 2.0
11. Secrets
12. War & Peace
13. You Are Not a Lottery Ticket
14. Seeing Green
15. Back to the Future
16. Decoding Ourselves
17. Deep Thought
18. Founder As Victim, Founder As God
19. Stagnation or Singularity

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These notes capture Blake Master's experience sitting in Peter Thiels' CS183 Stanford class in Spring of 2012.