The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice 📙
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@ycombinator I like this format, great advice and reminders too!
@ycombinator Literally going through this now with @gmCR3W we are building and travelling light towards MVP, with just the essentiallu critical team that is needed to make this product happen. Happy to receive more advice.
@ycombinator I personally Love @ycombinator , hope that will soon fund a TimeTravel startup so I can go back in time to find equity funding sexy again
@ycombinator These all bullet points sound like @paulg blog post titles. :)
@ycombinator Same list but OCD friendly.
@ycombinator Getting sleep and taking care of yourself needs to be higher. I know I wouldn’t buy a house built by laborers who prided themselves on getting only an hour’s worth of sleep every night. The quality and longevity of a product built is directly correlated to its builders’ health.
@ycombinator A deeper dive into most of that is from this oldie but goodie you find on that first link- ycombinator.com/library/4D-yc-…
@ycombinator Laminating... forget it, I'll just tattoo it on my arm. 🤣
@ycombinator Printed for our whole team. 💜
@ycombinator Get sleep and exercise and 3 more things 👇
@ycombinator En español 👇🏽
@ycombinator This is like listening to @mwseibel through out the batch all over again! Funny thing about us founders is that we usually ignore a lot of this advice, thinking our case is unique and that we know more than people who’ve seen 1000s of startups fail and succeed 😂 Keeping it real.
@ycombinator @garrytan Solid advice. I think "build something people want" could be changed a bit though. For example, before we launched Bird, people didn't necessarily "want" an eScooter. So you could still build something that people don't know they want yet. "build something people will enjoy"
@ycombinator The advice on big companies rings true. Big companies are hard to work with. Even if they are you target buyer / user find ways to get smaller deals that can move quicker
@ycombinator what if people don't know what they want? right, had Steve Jobs followed this path Iphone would have never created.
@ycombinator Take care of yourself is #1! Take care of yourself to take care of all others.
@ycombinator Roadmap for building products (and companies) people want!
