No Hype, No Shortcuts: A Free MIT Course That Prepares You to Build a Startup

After 12+ years of building digital products, OSS tools, I've noticed that the most useful resources rarely go viral. They're too honest for that. This MIT course by Joe Hadzima is one of them. Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures is free, open to everyone, and one of the most grounded resources on startups I've seen in a while. No hype, no shortcuts, no startup mythology. Just practical thinking about why most startups fail and what actually improves your odds. At a time when so much startup advice is optimized for attention, this course feels refreshingly different. Why this course stands out The title of the first session says everything: "Most Startups Fail: How to Improve Your Odds" That's the spirit of the whole course. It doesn't try to sell entrepreneurship as a glamorous path. It treats it as what it really is: a difficult, uncertain, deeply practical process that requires much more than enthusiasm and a good idea. The four things that actually matter One of the core frameworks in t