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yc startup school, in the order they teach it
8 items
- 01Module 1: deciding to start a startup
- 02Module 2: getting and evaluating startup ideas
- 03Module 3: building your founding team
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yc's essential startup advice, broken into points
the ralston/seibel piece from the yc library, paraphrased into points since nobody's rereading 3000 words twice
01
launch now, iterate after
waiting for perfect kills more startups than shipping ugly does
02
do things that don't scale
manual, unscalable work with your first 10 customers, not infra
03
find the 90/10 solution
04
write code and talk to users, skip the rest
conferences and press coverage can wait
05
pick your first customers on purpose
a few people who need this badly beats a crowd who kind of likes it
06
fire the customers who drain you
07
product-market fit before growth
growing something nobody wants just burns cash faster
08
unit economics have to actually work
09
do less, but really well
still true, especially when a big logo deal is tempting you off it
10
expect something to be fundamentally broken
11
ignore the competition
you mostly die from your own problems, not theirs
12
raise fast, then get back to work
valuation isn't the win, the product is
13
sleep and exercise, don't skip this one
14
protect the cofounder relationship
read the original for this point alone, honestly
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