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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay

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To get Peter Thiel’s latest thinking about startups and business, check out our new book, Zero to One. It’s a disciplined 200 pages and I promise it will be unlike any business book you’ve ever read. Order it now. - Blake M Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. Please note that I actually missed this class (I was on my honeymoon!). Thanks to @erikpavia and @danrthompson for sending me their notes to work from. CS183: Startup—Notes Essay—Value Systems The history of the ‘90s was in many ways the history of widespread confusion about the question of value. Valuations were psychosocial; value was driven by what people said it was. To avoid herd-like confusion of decades past, we need to try and figure out whether it’s possible to determine businesses’ objective value and, if it is, how to do it. As we discussed back in Class 1, certain questions and frameworks can anchor our

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay To get Peter Thiel’s latest thinking about startups and business, check out our new book, Zero to One . It’s a disciplined 200 pages and I promise it will be unlike any business book you’ve ever read. Order it now . - Blake M Home About Links --> Archive Mobile --> RSS --> CS183: Startup - Peter Thiel Class Notes Text --> April 12, 2012 110 notes Peter Thiel's CS183: Startup - Class 3 Notes Essay Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 3 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are my own. Credit for good stuff is Peter's entirely

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