Y Combinator (YC) is launching an online startup school and it’s free, so no need to relocate to San Francisco for an opportunity to be discovered.

This is just another move up the funnel to educate and identify great founders and companies in a semi-scalable way.

Startup School is a free 10-week massively open online course (MOOC). The course will begin on April 5th, 2017.

YC believes the barrier to entry is too high for people to start a startup and want to make it easier for everyone regardless of who you are.

Their blog posts states “At the end of the class, participants will have a chance to share what they’ve built with a wide audience.” although we don’t yet know exactly how that will work.

If you’re interested in participating as a startup founder, or receiving course updates and announcements, sign up here and we’ll let you know when registration opens:

If you’re interested in participating as a startup founder, or receiving course updates and announcements, sign up here and we’ll let you know when registration opens: