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The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make - Michael Seibel

Y Combinator
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Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on the biggest mistakes first-time founders make.   / 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/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - Solving a problem you don't care about 01:01 - Helping users you don't care about 01:47 - Choosing co-founders you don't know well 02:22 - Not having transparent conversations with your co-founders 03:20 - Not launching 04:45 - Not using analytics 05:02 - Not knowing where your first users will come from 05:47 - Poor prioritization ...more
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The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make - Michael Seibel
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2019Aug 16
Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on the biggest mistakes first-time founders make.   / 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/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:10 - Solving a problem you don't care about 01:01 - Helping users you don't care about 01:47 - Choosing co-founders you don't know well 02:22 - Not having transparent conversations with your co-founders 03:20 - Not launching 04:45 - Not using analytics 05:02 - Not knowing where your first users will come from 05:47 - Poor prioritization

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