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Startup School Podcast Preview with Kevin Hale

Today’s episode is a preview of the Startup School podcast. We’re putting all the Startup School lectures on their own podcast feed. You can subscribe here: iTunes RSS This is the first lecture from...

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EconTalk Host Russ Roberts on Key Economic Concepts for Founders

Russ Roberts is the host of the podcast EconTalk (iTunes, RSS, and YouTube), a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the author of several books, including How Adam Smith Can Change...

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How Do You Convince Someone to Join Your Startup?

Dalton Caldwell, Y Combinator partner and founder of imeem and Mixed Media Labs, on how to convince someone to join your startup.

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Jay Reno of Feather, a Furniture Subscription Startup

Jay Reno is the CEO and founder of Feather. Feather is a furniture subscription service. They were in the Summer 2017 batch of YC. You can check out their furniture at LiveFeather.com and if you live...

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The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on the biggest mistakes first-time founders make. Topics 00:10 – Solving a problem you don’t care about 1:00 – Helping users you don’t care about 1:40 –...

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Aaron Harris on Fundraising and Meeting with Investors

Aaron Harris is a Partner at YC and before that he cofounded Tutorspree. He’s on Twitter @harris. Topics 00:00 – Intro 00:25 – Seed fundraising process 3:15 – Emailing investors 9:15 – Parallelized...

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Diana Hu on Augmented Reality and Building a Startup in a New Market

Diana Hu cofounded Escher Reality, which went through the Summer 2017 batch of YC. They were acquired by Niantic and she is now the head of their AR platform. She’s on Twitter @sdianahu. Topics 00:00 –...

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How To Cold Email Investors – Michael Seibel

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on how to cold email investors. Topics 00:00 – Intro 00:17 – Make it short, i.e. 60 seconds or less to read 00:58 – Interested in: the problem you’re trying...

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Consume Information That Encourages You To Do More

YC Partner and Head of Admissions Dalton Caldwell on consuming tech media and being careful to choose things that encourage you to do more. Topics 00:00 – Consume information that encourages you to do...

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How Much Should You Spend After Fundraising?

YC Partner Gustaf Alströmer on how much money to spend after fundraising. Topics 00:05 – Too many companies spend their money too fast 00:27 – Most companies that raise a seed round will not be able to...

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What Makes The Top 10% Of Founders Different?

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on what makes the top 10% of founders different. Topics 00:00 – What Makes The Top 10% Of Founders Different? 00:35 – Great founders execute 1:22 –...

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Why Fundraising Is Different In Silicon Valley

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on why fundraising in Silicon Valley is different. Topics 00:00 – Why Fundraising Is Different In Silicon Valley 00:25 – Overcorrecting based on investor...

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Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability

Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author. He’s also the co-editor of Boing Boing. Joe Betts-Lacroix is the CTO of VIUM and an Expert at YC. Topics 00:07 – Adversarial...

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Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years

Matt Cutts is the Administrator of the US Digital Service and previously he was the head of the webspam team at Google. You can find him on Twitter at @mattcutts. Topics 00:00 – Intro 00:18 – Working...

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Who Should Founders Listen To For Advice?

YC Partner and Tutorspree cofounder Aaron Harris on who founders should listen to for advice. Topics 00:00 – Who should founders listen to for advice? 00:55 – Your job as a founder is to build a...

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Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown

Laks Srini is the cofounder and CTO of ZeroDown. Before that he was the cofounder and CTO of Zenefits. You can find him on Twitter at @laks_srini. Topics 00:10 – What is ZeroDown? 1:30 – How did they...

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Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a...

Amber Atherton is the founder and CEO of Zyper (YC W18). Iba Masood is the cofounder and CEO of TARA (YC W15). Topics 00:15 – Intros 1:00 – Seed fundraising for Zyper and Tara 3:10 – Tara’s pivot 4:15...

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How To Build Product As A Small Startup

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel shares a process for building product as a small startup. Topics 00:00 – Have a process to get product out the door 1:02 – Decide on a release schedule 1:15...

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How to Cope With Founder Depression

YC Partner Aaron Harris on how to cope with founder depression. Topics [00:00] – Starting a company is hard [00:32] – All founders go through rough times [01:05] – Don’t bottle things up [01:47] – Seek...

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Meet 8 YC startups that are hiring right now

Many YC startups are actively hiring on Work at a Startup across engineering, product, design, marketing and more. We asked founders to shoot a 30-second video describing their businesses and open...

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