Your AI startup advisor, powered by Stanford CS183B / Y Combinator's legendary course.
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📚 20 lectures · ⏱️ 1,000+ minutes · 🧠 Advice from world-class founders and investors
This is an AI agent skill that gives your coding assistant deep knowledge of Y Combinator's famous startup course.
Once installed, your AI agent can answer startup questions by referencing real lecture transcripts from: Sam Altman, Paul Graham, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, and many others.
One skill with 20 complete lecture transcripts as reference material:
| # | Topic | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | How to Start a Startup | Sam Altman, Dustin Moskovitz |
| 2 | Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution II | Sam Altman |
| 3 | Counterintuitive Parts of Startups, How to Have Ideas | Paul Graham |
| 4 | Building Product, Talking to Users, and Growing | Adora Cheung |
| 5 | Business Strategy and Monopoly Theory | Peter Thiel |
| 6 | Growth | Alex Schultz |
| 7 | How to Build Products Users Love I | Kevin Hale |
| 8 | Doing Things That Don't Scale, PR, Getting Started | Walker Williams, Justin Kan |
| 9 | How to Raise Money | Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway |
| 10 | Company Culture and Building a Team I | Alfred Lin, Brian Chesky |
| 11 | Company Culture and Building a Team II | Patrick & John Collison, Ben Silbermann |
| 12 | Building for the Enterprise | Aaron Levie |
| 13 | How To Be A Great Founder | Reid Hoffman |
| 14 | How to Operate | Keith Rabois |
| 15 | How to Manage | Ben Horowitz |
| 16 | How to Run a User Interview | Emmett Shear |
| 17 | How to Build Products Users Love II | Hosain Rahman |
| 18 | Mechanics — Legal, Finance, HR | Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy |
| 19 | Sales, Marketing, How to Pitch | Tyler Bosmeny, YC Partners |
| 20 | Closing Thoughts and Later-Stage Advice | Sam Altman |
# Add the marketplace
/plugin marketplace add zhimin-z/solopreneur
# Install the skill
/plugin install solopreneur@solopreneur
# List available skills
/plugin marketplace list solopreneurWorks with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Droid, Codex, and more:
# Install the skill
npx skills add zhimin-z/solopreneur
# Install to a specific agent
npx skills add zhimin-z/solopreneur -a claude
npx skills add zhimin-z/solopreneur -a cursor
npx skills add zhimin-z/solopreneur -a droid🔎 Browse and discover at skills.sh.
Once installed, ask your AI agent startup questions:
"How do I know if my startup idea is good?"
Your agent reads Lectures 1 & 3 and responds with Sam Altman's framework ("unpopular but right") and Paul Graham's advice on finding ideas from personal problems.
"How should I approach raising my seed round?"
Your agent reads Lecture 9 and synthesizes Marc Andreessen's and Ron Conway's advice on timing, amount, and investor selection.
"How do I build company culture as a first-time founder?"
Your agent reads Lectures 10 & 11 and pulls from Brian Chesky (Airbnb), Patrick Collison (Stripe), and Alfred Lin (Zappos) on defining and maintaining culture.
"What's the most important metric for growth?"
Your agent reads Lecture 6 and delivers Alex Schultz's framework on retention as the single most important metric.
"How do I transition from founder to operator?"
Your agent reads Lectures 14 & 15 and combines Keith Rabois's operating framework with Ben Horowitz's management advice.
This skill works with 16+ AI coding agents via npx skills add:
- Claude Code — Anthropic's CLI for Claude
- Cursor — AI-first code editor
- Factory Droid — AI software engineering agent
- Windsurf — AI-powered IDE
- OpenCode — Open-source AI coding assistant
- Codex — AI code generation tool
- And more... — See the full list
All lecture content is from "How to Start a Startup" (CS183B), a free course by Sam Altman and Y Combinator at Stanford University.
- Video lectures: YouTube
- Transcript source: genius.com
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