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Co-founder Pro-Tips

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Start with the big problem


How to Measure Product Market Fit

Do this first if in doubt


YC Tips in 14 Slides


Form a Team of Benevolent Members


Customers, Co-Founders, and Capital


What Matters to YC?

Does the idea make sense? Do you know about it? Can you build it? Can you get customers?
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4D-yc-s-essential-startup-advice

How to Evaluate a Startup Idea


2024's AI Idea


Sam's Steps to Success


How to Build an MVP


Fund Your Startup With Revenue

Ask for pre-orders: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxlMqm_cOFDAH7nkMXbsrzU3P8G85smRkK?si=VcRyhGqckgy8y_tt

Bootstrap or VC


Schlep Blindness - Paul Graham


Avoid These Mistakes


A Miracle


Paul Buchheit: focus, frugality, obsession, love


Focus and Frugality


Obsession


Love


Think Big for Success

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxeMTsZZhzIo-aM_Kd0cR9qQcGL3-W0Aub?si=dU52WJc6JzRw-yvp

Launch Early

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxO-yFDA3053q_cucUUC-5Jn3xVmyPADzw?si=2E2UO0WMT_xxEDlm

When to Launch? OFTEN!


Partners You Want

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxTaTzty3RyCfGbqSvZotvJXNHjPs7ZJMj?si=SMbijUhsbE-8McOu

Talk to Users


Founders' Responsibility to Investors


TAM and other metrics (https://posthog.com)


Timebox your way to startup product market fit


What makes the best founders?


Best Practices


Qualities of Successful Founders


Find a tech co-founder (Someone you like and that you get along with)


What YC Wants to See in Teams


Importance of Getting Market Ground Truth


Tarpit Ideas

Bad: a new undifferentiated social app. Good: High quality software that solves a major business problem so that companies can run more efficiently in a major industry.

Example Seed Sizes


Door Dash Founder Video


How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer


Most important consideration: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxeRc35YVS8cY_E82E7TU6BHEhJPkohj4D?si=tFYALxeXyKoypXLp

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