Do You Want to Build a Social Media Campaign?

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A YC fighter wrote in a potential customers opinion is not valuable unless they're willing to pay you or use the product regularly. They call this financial capital pay you time capital usage or social capital. Give it to their friends. "Going a little deep helps putting yourself in situation where you can have a deep conversation," he said.

Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on the importance of talking to your users, why successful founders are ok with rejection from potential customers, and how protecting your ego by not talking to your users can kill your startup.

To create Rookies Mistakes we asked YC founders: Is there a simple fact you wish you knew when you started your company or a rookie mistake you wish you could take back?

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