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Discover how to secure your startup's financial future post-investment with our definitive safe calculator guide. Essential reading for founders.

YC Partner Kirsty Nathoo gives the lowdown on several different ways to capitalize your company and how those impact founder equity and cap tables overall. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6m-understanding-safes-and-priced-equity-rounds This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and ...

It's important for founders to understand what the dilution impact will be of their convertible notes and/or Y-Combinator SAFEs. You can use the share dilution spreadsheet (see link below), a share dilution calculator, to understand founder share dilution from convertible securities. It applies to convertible notes and the original pre-money ...

Download the spreadsheet to analyze startup dilution from multiple convertible notes and SAFEs at:. http://www.startupsos.com/dilution Convertible securities, including the convertible note and the SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) are popular startup funding mechanisms that entrepreneurs use particularly for angel funding, but they do ...

In this episode, Chilean startup attorney Matias Vukusic tears down the Y Combinator SAFE Agreement, or Simple Agreement for Future Equity. Matias talks about identifying impostor SAFE agreements, determining “reasonableness” when advising a very young company, and shares an exciting announcement about the future of the Contract Teardown ...

There are 3 common mistakes startup founders make in raising money with convertible notes and/or the Y Combinator SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) that increase startup share dilution, resulting in a cap table (capitalization table) that has a lot less ownership for the founders than it should. One is to not keep careful track of how ...

With the YC S22 batch coming to a close, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel reflect on the recent batch and their experience fundraising. The two group partners also clear up some misconceptions about Y Combinator based on feedback from founders. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs ...

YC Partner Dalton Caldwell gives insight into how YC admissions works and what makes for a successful YC experience. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6t-how-to-apply-and-succeed-at-y-combinator This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register and ...

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on splitting equity between cofounders. https://twitter.com/mwseibel Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year. Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly ...

Model your SAFE funding round with our free calculator: http://safes.carta.com Watch episode 1, the difference between SAFEs and Convertible Notes: https://youtu.be/PtTDmeU-Kok Watch episode 3, the difference between a pre-money and post-money SAFEs: https://youtu.be/Mj0LxtaLQIk Automate your cap table with Carta: https://www.carta.com ...

YC Group Partner Dalton Caldwell shares his strategies for how to think about applying to YC. This talk goes beyond the information on YC's website, and reflects Dalton's latest advice on the topic. (Fun Fact: An earlier version of this talk is frequently mentioned by YC founders as instrumental in their decision to apply to YC and to getting ...

Y Combinator partner and Scribd cofounder Jared Friedman answers the question, when is the right time to apply to Y Combinator? https://twitter.com/snowmaker Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year. Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com ...

How to open a safe with 4 number combination and how to open a safe with 3 number combination.

YC Partner Kevin Hale covers the first principles of conversion, one of the main drivers of growth for your startup, and how you can improve it starting with your landing page. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6l-how-to-improve-conversion-rates This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online ...

YC Partner and CFO Kirsty Nathoo shares the most common mistakes startups make with their finances and how they can prevent them. You can find the lecture slides and transcript here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/70 Find more Startup School and YC content at https://www.startupschool.org/library.

Y Combinator Group Partner, Michael Seibel, explains how to build a minimum viable product (MVP) for your startup idea. Using examples from real YC companies, Michael walks through how to determine your MVP feature set, build prototypes and demos for user testing, and present your MVP to early customers or investors. Apply to Y Combinator ...

Lecture Transcript: http://tech.genius.com/Kevin-hale-lecture-7-how-to-build-products-users-love-part-i-annotated Kevin Hale, Founder of Wufoo and Partner at Y Combinator, explains how to build products that create a passionate user base invested in your startup's success. See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec07 ...

Watch episode 2: What's a valuation cap? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcrsoartpFU Watch episode 3: The difference between pre-money and post-money SAFEs: https://youtu.be/Mj0LxtaLQIk Model your SAFE funding round with our free calculator: https://www.safes.carta.com Automate your cap table with Carta: https://www.carta.com Everything you ...

Former YC partner Garry Tan, the cofounder of Initialized Capital and a design expert describes how to effectively integrate design into a product development process. You can find the lecture transcript and slides here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/57 Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/

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. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6n-how-to-work-together This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online ...

YC Partner and GC Carolynn Levy details the basics of startup financing and how modern early stage rounds of financing are done using convertible securities, like the SAFE. You can find the lecture slides and transcript here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/79 Find more Startup School and YC content at https://www.startupschool.org/library.

SAFEs (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) have become a popular funding vehicle for startup fundraising. When Y Combinator updated the SAFE template in September 2018, they changed the dilution calculation from a pre-money to a post-money basis. This major change increases the dilution for the founders and employees. Learn how employee ...

YC Partner Jared Friedman covers hard-tech companies and why founders should consider starting one. He also covers a couple of the most common problems hard-tech companies face and how to solve them, with examples from seven YC companies. You can find the lecture slides and transcript here: https://www.startupschool.org/videos/78 Find more ...

Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed with a startup. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! https://www.startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:11 A product so ...

YC Partner Geoff Ralston gives an introduction to the key concepts to keep in mind once you enter a fundraising process. Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/

The stories are true: technical founders (and early technical employees!) often end up with the short end of the stick when starting a company. In this episode of Dalton & Michael, we’ll discuss the questions and best practices that an aspiring technical founder should think about — whom to start a company with, and how to think about ...

Encoding recursion in the Lambda calculus, one of Professor Graham Hutton's favourite functions. Lambda Calculus: https://youtu.be/eis11j_iGMs Professor Brailsford on 'Pointers': Coming Soon! Many thanks to Microsoft Research UK for their support with the 'Essentials' mini-series. http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com ...

YC CEO Michael Seibel outlines how successful startups think about building something people want. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! https://www.startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:53 What allowed ...

Early-stage startups typically raise funds using convertible notes and SAFEs. Learn how these funding instruments came to be, how they work, and how they lead to the investor's goal of holding preferred stock. Learn how SAFEs address a key founder concern and risk factor with convertible notes. CHANNEL DESCRIPTION: Fundable Startups provides ...

At the start of the S23 batch we interviewed 50 founders about why they applied to Y Combinator. It's a look at the program through the people that YC helps the most: our founders. The deadline for Winter 24 batch is October 13! Apply below. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/FounderFAQ-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/FounderFAQ ...

In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Harj Taggar shares his advice on the types of people best suited to be startup founders and how to prepare to start a company in the future. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 ...

How much startup share dilution will your Y Combinator SAFE result in when you do a priced round that converts the SAFEs to stock? This video walks through a share dilution spreadsheet that allows you to analyze the dilution of the post-money SAFE. The SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) is a popular startup funding mechanism that ...

There's only so many hours in a day and running a startup will require most of them. So how do you use that time wisely and be more productive? In this episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners at Y Combinator share their favorite strategies to be more effective and reduce distractions at work. They'll discuss the benefits of maker/manager ...

If your safe has a dial, you can change the safe combination youself, so long as you know the existing combination. Suggested Videos: How to Dial a 3-digit Safe Combination https://youtu.be/6oFXdJWBFCs How Safe Combination Locks Work https://youtu.be/oHmUrXH341M In this video we walk you through dialing a safe combination and demonstrate how to ...

How should you navigate your 20s - the most important decade in your life? For many people, it’s an age with fewer responsibilities: no kids, no mortgage, no restrictions. And so it’s actually the best possible time to go hardcore: to take risks, invest in yourself, and surround yourself with like-minded people. In this episode, Dalton ...

Mark is a cofounder of Facebook. Facebook is one of the most influential companies in the history of the world. Over 1.1 billion people use it every day. Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: http://www.ycombinator.com/future/mark/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:12 The early days ...

Sam Altman sits down with Reid Hoffman to talk about the key changes founders should think about as they transition from a startup to a scaleup. This conversation took place at The Scaleup Offsite, a private CEO gathering hosted by Y Combinator Continuity and Greylock Partners in April 2017.

If you're looking to maximize your startup's potential, start by setting the right goals. Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell provide tips and strategies for setting goals that will help keep you and your new business focused on success—plus provide examples of bad goals to avoid as a startup. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply ...

Join my community at http://JohnCoogan.com (enter your email) Here’s my personal experience getting into Y Combinator and what I think you should do if you want to get in. BIG DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert, I don’t work for YC and haven’t been in one of the new, remote-only batches. YC is constantly evolving and improving their process ...

What is Y Combinator? The Story Of The Startup Accelerator. What is YCombinator? Who is Paul Graham? What is YCombinator Demo Day? What are YCombinator Office Hours? How to get into y combinator? In this video, we explore Y Combinator, the startup accelerator providing startup funding and entrepreneur advice to future successful businesses in ...

In this video, Uriah Ortiz, owner of Guardian Safe & Lock explains how to correctly dial in your safe combination. It goes over the dialing pattern of a standard manual safe dial with a 3 number combination. Also, he briefly explains what the 4 number combination to a manual dial really is. Our review of the Hollon Black Hawk series of Gun ...

Discover the best ways for a seed-stage startup to pitch to investors and successfully fundraise from Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel. Any founder you talk to likely remembers every investor who said no to them. Those founders hold a special kind of “not hatred,” says Michael Seibel, Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator, but ...

This video describes how to use the TI-30 to compute combinations Remember to use the second function button in order to access combinations. For more videos please visit http://www.mysecretmathtutor.com

In order to get your startup off the ground it's critical to keep your co-founders motivated. One of the best ways to do that is to figure out a fair co-founder equity split. In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Michael Seibel explains the ins and outs of co-founder equity, why it's important to be generous with that equity, and ...

When it comes to building a successful startup, focus is critical. But how do you know if you’re spending time on the right things? In this episode, Dalton and Michael share advice for how to break through the noise and zero in on solving the problems that matter most for your business. Apply to Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com/apply ...

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The Lightcone hosts sit down with Aaron Levie, the co-founder & CEO of Box, to hear reports from the front of how large enterprise and Fortune 500 companies are adapting to the AI age. Apply to Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com/apply Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 0:00 Intro 1:15 Why the GPT wrapper was a bad meme 4:44 ...

The biggest companies in the world all had to start somewhere. In this episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners explore the humble origins of several top YC companies to try and identify common traits of the most successful founders. They’ll explore what it takes to keep your company alive in the early days, where to focus your energy and ...

A little over ten years ago Paul Graham published the essay "Do Things That Don't Scale." At the time, it was highly controversial advice that spoke to the drastically different needs of an early startup versus the needs of a much larger, more established company. YC Partners discuss PG's essay, its influence on Silicon Valley, and some prime ...