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Fundraising and Equity: YC's Kirsty Nathoo gives the lowdown on several different ways to capitalize your company and how those impact founder equity and cap tables overall.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

YC Group Partner Jared Friedman shares a framework for how to get and evaluate startup ideas. He shares many examples of YC companies and the inside stories of how they came up with the ideas that turned into billion dollar companies. Even if you have an existing idea, this talk helps founders confirm that their idea is good and/or provide ...

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 ...

YC Partner Eric Migicovsky outlines a framework for asking questions and collecting feedback from your users. This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register and join the community at https://www.startupschool.org/ Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00:00 ...

YC Group Partner Aaron Epstein talks about different startup business models, how to monetize, and how to price your product. Pricing and monetization is one of the most common questions from founders, and this talk outlines 9 business models as well as highlighting business model lessons from the top YC companies. Business Model Guide: https ...

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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. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6o-how-to-prioritize-your-time This lecture is part of YC ...

Here's the story of how I got into Y Combinator (YC) with a 4 day old idea, whilst still at university. DISCLAIMER: My experiences are offered independently of, and not sponsored or endorsed by, or affiliated with, Y Combinator. Here is the book I mention - Disciplined Entrepreneurship: https://www.d-eship.com/. It’s essentially a 24-step ...

YC Partner & Former Head of Growth at Airbnb, Gustaf Alströmer, gives tactical advice to answer the question: how do I get my first customers? Gustaf will cover this topic for all kinds of companies - whether you're B2B or B2C. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs Chapters (Powered by ...

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 ...

Access podcast and transcript versions of this interview here: https://www.ycombinator.com/future/sam Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 00:14 - How to Pick What's Important to Work On 01:06 - Finding Your Tribe: Advice on selecting who you are working with 02:52 - How to accomplish big things? 03:40 - Work life ...

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel take a look at Paul Graham's essay "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" and share tips on how to be more effective and productive on the journey to creating a billion dollar business. Read PG's essay here: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work ...

Thinking of a new startup idea? Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the types of ideas to stay away from—what we commonly refer to as "tarpit ideas." Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 00:16 - Advice on ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Algebra video tutorial explains how to combine like terms using the distributive property. It contains plenty of examples and practice problems. Algebra - Free Formula Sheet: https://www.video-tutor.net/algebra-formula-sheet.html _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Algebra For ...

This video shows you how to factor polynomials such as binomials and trinomials by removing the greatest common factor, using the ac method, substitution, and so much more. Factoring - Free Formula Sheet: https://www.video-tutor.net/algebra-formula-sheet.html Factoring - More Lessons: https://www.video-tutor.net/factoring.html Final Exam and ...

In 2013, DoorDash applied to Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch, and they were accepted. This is their application video.

It’s fair to say that few people in tech are positioned to have a bigger impact on the future than Sam Altman. As the CEO of OpenAI, Altman and his team have overseen monumental leaps forward in machine learning, generative AI and most recently LLMs that can reason at PhD levels. And this is just the beginning. In his latest essay Altman ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to An Intro to Combining Like Terms with Mr. J! Need help with simplifying expressions by combining like terms? You're in the right place! Whether you're just starting out, or need a quick refresher, this is the video for you if you're looking for help with how to combine like terms. Mr. J will go through examples of simplifying ...

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.

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/

Andrej Karpathy recently coined the term “vibe coding” to describe how LLMs are getting so good that devs can simply “give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.” We dive into this new way of programming and what it means for builders in the age of AI. Apply to Y Combinator: https://ycombinator.com ...

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 ...

In this Startup School lecture, YC Partner Harj Taggar shares advice on how to find the right co-founder for your startup. Transcript and lecture slides here: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/8h-how-to-find-the-right-co-founder This lecture is part of YC's Startup School, a free online program and global community of founders. Register 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 ...

Uncovering trends, patterns and insights from startups that got accepted at YCombinator. Data (USD): https://ideaisalluneed.gumroad.com/l/yc_data_jan25 Data (INR): https://ideaisalluneed.gumroad.com/l/inr_yc_data_25 Full Analysis: https://highsignalai.substack.com/p/what-400-yc-backed-startups-reveal Social Media & Discord Server Invitation ...

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 ...

How to Start a Startup is a series of video lectures, initially given at Stanford in Fall 2014. Lecture Transcript: http://www.tech.genius.com/Sam-altman-lecture-2-ideas-products-teams-and-execution-part-ii-annotated Sam Altman finishes up "Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution" by covering Team and Execution, in Lecture 2 of How to Start a ...

Whether it's for sales, recruiting or making new connections, cold outreach is a necessary tool for helping build your startup. But as you probably know, most cold emails either are ignored or end up in the trash. So what can you do to make sure your emails break through the noise? In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Aaron ...

Y Combinator Group Partner, Pete Koomen, led his startup, Optimizely, to $100M ARR. In this video, Pete breaks down the enterprise sales funnel and shares his top tips on how a technical founder can start closing real deals for their startup. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs Chapters ...

In this episode of Startup School, YC General Partner and Co-Founder of Algolia Nicolas Dessaigne explains the ins and outs of starting a dev tools company from the ground up. He'll explain how to find the right idea, who should be a part of your team, and whether or not you need a sales and marketing team when you're ready to go to market ...

When someone visits your website you only have a few seconds to convince them it’s worth their time. So how do you do that? In this episode of Design Review, Aaron Epstein is joined by Zack Onisko, the former CEO of Dribbble, to review user submitted websites in under 10 seconds and give their first impression feedback. They’ll provide ...

Full podcast: https://youtu.be/e6OMJK-0mC8 Listen to this podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4zTvaUgur4TwxuTaamhlJW?si=OQfDzHZjR0iN8l4VGnBs5w In 2020, Mainak Sarkar and Pritam Khan applied for Y Combinator for the third time, for their startup Eatable. Their initial attempts had failed because they struggled to get through the ...

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This animation visualizes the evaluation of the Y combinator in lambda calculus. Yellow and red arrows denote functions and arguments respectively. Blue arrows denote lambdas pointing downward from input to output, and green arrows denote bound variables. Since the Y combinator satisfies Y(f) = f(Y(f)) for any function f, we can keep expanding ...

AI is dramatically changing the way we interact with software. So for this episode of Design Review, YC General Partner Aaron Epstein sat down with Raphael Schaad, the founder and designer of Cron (now Notion Calendar), to critique some groundbreaking AI user interfaces. Together they’ll review a wide variety of examples, from agents and ...

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ACT Math Practice If x = 3r - 4 and y = 3r + 2, which of the following expresses y in terms of x? A.) y = x + 2 B.) y = x + 6 C.) y = 9r + 14 D.) y = 6r - 2 E.) y = 3x + 14 💯 Subscribe to Algebra House: https://bit.ly/3pNH9Iy 👉 Visit: https://algebrahouse.com

"Term Sheet... What is that?!?" Hey Taxpayers, Tiffany Gonzalez CPA is back with another great installment of "What is that?!?" Where we bring you financial terms and topics you may have heard, but we make them super easy to understand. Today we are talking about the Term Sheet, which has to do with investing in businesses. Term Sheets are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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