<div dir="ltr"><span class="im" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Sam Altman, President of </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Y Combinator, will be teaching a class at Stanford this fall on How to Start a Startup. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.9499998092651px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.9499998092651px;white-space:pre-wrap">The MIT UA Innovation Committee will be organizing sessions from<b> 9pm-10pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays in 2-105</b> to watch the videos of these lectures. We’ll brainstorm ideas, bounce them off each other, and refine them over the course of</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.9499998092651px;white-space:pre-wrap"> the semester. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.9499998092651px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></span><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:14.9499998092651px;white-space:pre-wrap">The first class is <b>Tuesday, 9/23</b></span></p><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id=":wx" class="" tabindex="0"><img class="" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Along with guest lecturers like Marissa Mayer, Peter Thiel, and Ben Horowitz, Sam will be covering the fundamentals: how to come up with ideas and evaluate them, how to get users and grow, how to do sales and marketing, how to hire, how to raise money, company culture, operations and management, business strategy, and more.</span></div></div><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="im"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font style="line-height:1.15"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font style="line-height:1.15"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">You should sign up for the course-wide </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/3oe0H" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">mailing list</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/556336557801913/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Facebook group</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, as well as the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1470141319920004/" target="_blank">Facebook group</a></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.15;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> we will be using for discussions here at MIT.</span><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind opportunity!</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Will Jack</font></span></p><p style="line-heig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