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Recent notes:
YC
Partner
Eric Migicovsky
shares a framework for asking questions and collecting
feedback
from your users.
YC
President
Geoff Ralston
concludes
Startup School
this year with some parting advice, as founders continue on their journey to make something people want.
YC
Partner
Dalton Caldwell
gives insight into how
YC
admissions works and what makes for a successful
YC
experience.
A lot of the advice we give
startups
is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at
YC
consider the most important, most transformative advice for
startups
. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the guidance below will help most
startups
find their path to success.
Founders often ask how they should split equity with their
co-founders
. When I
search
the web on this topic I often see horrible advice, typically advocating for significant inequality among different founding team members. We see this trend reflected in the thousands of applications we review at
Y Combinator
every year.
YC
Partner
Kevin Hale
talks about the importance of building a successful working relationship with your cofounders, and setting up processes to optimize for the strengths of your team.
YC
Partner
Adora Cheung
shares her framework for how founders can efficiently make use of their
time
. She covers ways to identify and prioritize tasks, in addition to how you can measure their impact on your company.
YC
Partner
Kat Manalac
presents on how
startups
should think about launching and why you should do it repeatedly.
To succeed in building a big company in the
long-term
, founders must become good at leading, motivating, and retaining great people.
Ali Rowghani
,
YC
Partner and
CEO
of the
YC
Continuity Fund, takes from his experience working with great leaders to share his three observations on
leadership
.