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startup = everything is coming together and falling apart at the same time
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I've left YC! Investing is fun; building a company is the most fun. I really miss it. Back to the trenches.
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When interviewing job candidates, I always refer to this passage from Jeff Bezos' 1998 shareholder letter. It's a great, simple rubric.
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Investor at demo day asked a female founder to babysit his kids. He's been uninvited from future events. Can't make this stuff up.
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seems like a good time to launch that online education startup idea you've always had.
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Last month another investor asked a female founder/CEO to search for a white male to replace her as CEO. Also uninvited.
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I left my role as YC partner almost 2 yrs ago to get back to building. Together with my co-founder (and brother!), Alex, we embarked on a mission to make preventative healthcare actually work.
After many pivots and iterations, we’re finally want to share our solution:…
Hey there, health data nerds & mental/physical performance optimizers! Today we’re launching for you. Here’s what you're getting with us:
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YC interviews in India! Please help spread the word. Application deadline is April 12. Happy to answer any questions.
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding interviews for the YC S19 batch in Bangalore for founders based in India:
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I understand why founders do this but I'm not the type of user that's going to spend 30 minutes on an "onboarding call." Much more likely to convert trying it myself than even get on a call.
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YC Startup School will again offer equity-free grants (now $15k each!) to the most promising companies that join and complete the course. There's no application this time; just sign up to participate.
Registration for Startup School 2019 is now open! Sign up now at .
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I’ve been in Hong Kong marching and protesting in support of
#FreeHongKong
.
What I've seen is the grit and courage of Hong Kongers are only increasing. This movement isn’t going anywhere.
But they need more support. Learn more here:
#StandWithHongKong
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The bad effect of having so much generic, good-sounding advice out there is that people have stopped thinking for themselves. Very rarely is it meant to be applied in a strict 1-1 mapping kind of way.
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More and more founders are giving up too early on their startup (or pivot drastically) when their first solution doesn't work.
But if you've actually identified a real hair-on-fire problem for people, you're ahead of the game already. Be patient and find a solution they'll use.
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I'm interested in working with startups that will help re-build local economies when shelter-in-place is over. Small businesses, e.g. restaurants, in particular.
Please apply to YC for funding if you're working on this: . Reply here or DM with questions.
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It's amazing to see how much a startup can accomplish in 3 months at
@ycombinator
. 74% of companies this batch were un-launched when we accepted them. A few even pivoted mid-way.
All 59 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2 by
@lucasmtny
and
@cookie
and
@jshieber
and
@annaescher
and
@anthonyha
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Starting (or thinking of starting) a startup?
Register for Startup School 2018,
@ycombinator
's free online, 10-week course.
Plus, we're giving $10,000 in equity-free funding to promising companies that join and complete the course.
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We've updated our Request for Startups. Here are the new ones:
-Brick and Mortar 2.0
-Carbon Removal Technologies
-Cellular Agriculture + Clean Meat
-Cleaner Commodities
-Improving Memory
-Longevity + Anti-Aging
-Safeguards Against Fake Video
-Supporting Creators
-Voice Apps
We posted an updated Request for Startups -- 25 ideas we'd like to see founders apply with:
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Hard to articulate but founders in India seem much more optimistic, more altruistic. Neither necessary or sufficient conditions to success but I think very correlated. Investors should spend more time there.
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It's 7pm in NYC! Our daily routine: open window, clap and holler for all the frontline workers.
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Just finished the last
@startupschool
meetup of the year in Bengaluru! Thanks
@WeWork
for hosting us.
I had a blast meeting founders and giving talks with
@ilikevests
and
@ericmigi
around the world. We met with over 2.5K Startup School founders in person this year. Thank you!
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if i were to start another o2o co, i’d initially avoid sf. customers don’t behave like rest of world + 10x harder to acquire/retain workers.
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Spent first 48hrs of 2020 just programming. Was inspired by this HN post to build my own personal log:
Made me realize how much I miss just building something for myself and no other reason. Time to go to bed though :)
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The amount of calls I get about renewing all my car warranties is impressive. Especially since I own 0 cars.
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Who is building a better LabCorp/Quest? The duopoly seems vulnerable from a few angles and is due for a shakeup.
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@domoniquefines
Your cousin is awesome and if he wants to be firefighter when he gets out, we should fight to get that to happen!
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Common question I'm getting re: applying to
@ycombinator
is - do we still take pre-revenue startups? Absolutely, YES! We accept more pre-revenue, than not.
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College students: it's cool to graduate and then work on your startup full-time. We'll early accept you for YC Summer 2019 batch this Fall. Just apply now.
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I’ll be interviewing
@getpeid
, co-founder of
@oneplus
, for the
@ycombinator
podcast. What questions do you have for him?
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We want to build new, better cities!
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Tables turned! I'm going to be interviewing
@CraigCannon
- host of the great
@ycombinator
podcast - on all things podcasting. What questions do you have for him?
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Who else thinks there are too many chat apps and frustrated your chat experience is too fragmented?
@ericmigi
built an app called NovaChat that solves this by aggregating them all in slick way. I'm an avid user and fan. Highly recommend:
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Hey
@CarnegieMellon
, I'm at the career fair. If you want feedback on your startup idea or learn more about
@ycombinator
, stop by!
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Culdesac is the YC startup I've been most excited about.
@ryanmjohnson
, Jeff and team have solid, ambitious plans to make car-free cities a reality. (Also jealous of Tempe; wish I lived there right about now:)
Congrats to
@liveculdesac
(YC S18) for announcing their first project - Culdesac Tempe, the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S opening Fall 2020:
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You’ve struck gold when people either really love or really hate your idea. No in between.
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@Prepare4VC
@ycombinator
@Jkraus23
Charging $50 is BS and you know it. Tbh, it might negative value add. If people want help with YC application or mock interviews, there are plenty of YC alum who do this for free.
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Edsger W. Dijkstra’s list of advice to young scientists is mostly applicable to anyone in any field:
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Over 15,000 companies applied to the
@ycombinator
Startup School. We've decided to accept them all! Look forward to the first class next week.
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Regardless of how great the advice sounds or how great the person who said it is, you need to think of how it applies to and how it should be customized for your situation.
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At
@ycombinator
we're hiring for a Visiting Partner who is an expert in life sciences. (Please share with any entrepreneur that might be great for this!)
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Favorite quote from the keynotes: "It’s not your y-intercept but your slope that matters."
Thanks to everyone who came out for YC's Work at a Startup Expo. Check out the presentations for 43 YC companies at and sign up at to find hundreds of engineering jobs.
#workatastartup
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to people always deriding entrepreneurs for raising “too much” money & attempting to build something significant. well, SORRY FOR TRYING.
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.
@ycombinator
is taking interviews on the road again! This time in Bangalore AND Paris. This is for founders based in India and Western Europe. Application deadline is Sept 25. See you all there!
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I hope smart, ambitious thinkers and doers will apply. I look forward to reading every single application.
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Here's my summer reading recommendations I posted on Hacker News a few days ago. And here's some more goods ones from others at
@ycombinator
: …
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reporters that write about revenues should insist on knowing some notion of cogs / marketing / variable costs. anyone can turn $100 into $1.
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slack-free life is the better life. less noise, more focus, clear mind.
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twilio is still as simple to use as it was when i first touched it nearly a decade ago. impressed the bloat hasn't increased onboarding friction per usual. very happy user then and now.
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How part of Library of Alexandria's book collection was built: confiscating books from tourists to the city
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Shopping for too much advice and confirmation bias are highly correlated.
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Do you have a family history of heart disease or diabetes? Working on something new for you, would love to chat. DM me!
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I'll be interviewing
@viditaatrey
, co-founder & CEO of
@meeshoapp
on the YC podcast. What questions should I ask?
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Exactly. People glorify pivoting too much. If you've identified a good problem, stick with it and iterate.
On pivoting too soon: "You’re building a new product for a customer who has never used your product before. Two months is usually not enough time to figure it out. It’s going to take time. If it was easy, someone else would’ve built it already." -
@mwseibel
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Founders of scaling companies should always practice being a new customer of their own product. Start a new account and see where it takes you. It might surprise you on what it has become.
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I'm helping my friend Ted Nelson sell the remaining copies of his great 1974 book, Computer Lib/Dream Machines. 100% of sales go directly to him. Get your copy here:
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Did you know
@ycombinator
is the largest bio & hard-tech seed investor in the world?
Jared Friedman gives great advice for biotech & hard-tech founders in our latest Startup School lecture. He would know; he works with these companies a lot.
YC Partner Jared Friedman (
@snowmaker
) covers hard-tech companies and why founders should consider starting one. He also covers a couple of the most common problems hard-tech companies face and how to solve them, with examples from seven YC companies.
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We started
@getinstalab
as an effortless way for our founder friends (and ourselves) to be proactive about their health and still make their startups top priority.
Was just sort of over the whole vibe of "I'll deal with my health when my startup succeeds." I explain it more…
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Doctors say they over-treat because:
1. fear of malpractice (85%)
2. patient pressure (59%)
3. difficulty accessing medical records (38%)
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Common advice I give to those who want to start a startup but don't have ideas they're really into yet: work at a growing startup!
In fact, you can apply to hundreds of them at once here:
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investors asking founders to pay their legal fees in seed rounds is definition of nickel and diming.
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"It's weird how I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the universe." - xkcd
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YC Admissions's Early Decision experiment has proven to be very effective, so it's here to stay.
@stephaniersimon
@daltonc
College students: Apply to YC in September, get your acceptance in October, and start the program in June after you graduate.
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after 4 years of failed ideas, finally stumbled upon one really good idea. there's no way i'm letting this one go.
http://t.co/owaLUibJT7
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I recently went vegan. It actually wasn't hard. So many tasty options these days, and only accelerating. And my blood work says I'm healthier than ever before.
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Get ready for the dockless e-scooter wars. Just tried them all. This is definitely my new go-to last-mile option. 🛴 🚀
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I'm just so very happy and proud of all my friends who are about to experience an IPO. All that hard work finally realized; they all deserve it.
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Trying to set up a really simple, one-item Shopify store and now I realize why there's a whole industry for just Shopify plugins.
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I'm beginning to really hate those chat-boxes that randomly pop-up on the bottom right of every site. It's like the new Microsoft Office Clippy.
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idea: a podcast that interviews children on deep philosophical questions
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Happy 13th birthday,
@ycombinator
! Thanks
@jesslivingston
@paulg
@tlbtlbtlb
(and rtm) for starting such an incredible, impactful organization.
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That's a wrap. It's been real, India. See you again soon.
Taking over the last leg of
@ycombinator
session with great enthusiasm
@nolimits
@innov8cowork
Bangalore
#startupindia
#founders
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OH: "I practiced English by calling up call centers of American companies"
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Been recently interviewing people on their primary care experience. And yikes, it might have worse NPS than the airline industry.
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i wish ppl instead of rolling their eyes at every “small” idea a founder sets out to build, would first take time to dream w/ them a little.
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"best company at any dday isn't the one that fits the theme of that dday. it’s the one that fits the theme of 2019"
The 48 startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2
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Google Search transitioned my results into this and for a split second I thought I was hacked.
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I’m old enough to remember when Trump imploded in last Tuesday’s debate. And so is everyone else.
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IMO, buggy online voter registration forms = voter suppression
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Huge fan of companies that significantly lower the cost of starting a business, e.g.
@meeshoapp
, whose mission is to create 20m entrepreneurs in India by 2020. If you're an engineer or PM and want to join the next big thing in India, Meesho is it:
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That's me. AMA on
@joinelpha
.
Our Office Hours host this week is
@nolimits
, Partner at
@ycombinator
, Economics PhD dropout, and former CEO & Co-founder of Homejoy. Join Elpha today to ask her a question.
Thanks for joining us this week, Adora! 🙌
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When you're dashing thru the airport to catch a flight and you accidentally get on a moving walkway where everyone's standing.
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Been around long enough now that I get totally confused when recycled startup names show up in tech headlines. “Wow what a pivot … oh wait, that’s another company”
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Debates were way more entertaining with Andrew Yang on stage. Put him back.
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