A lot of people talk about the growth of YC and YC certainly has grown pretty significantly. Back sizes are a little bit more than double since I lasted YC in 2012. But what it's also done is it's allowed us to have such a variety of companies that have a variety of stages.
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Questions
00:25 - Why is YC worth 7% of your company?
6:25 - Generating leverage when fundraising
12:07 - Youssef asks - How did you validate your product market fit?
15:00 - LC Carrier asks - How does YC feel about companies who don't want to raise VC after the program?
17:05 - Edmilson Rodrigues asks - Do companies need to be incorporated already to participate in YC?
18:50 - Alex Rodriguez asks - What do you look for in startups that haven't had good growth but continue to push through (e.g. AirBnB) that makes you accept them?
26:50 - Fedor Paretsky asks - Do you have techniques you encourage to make pitches sound more exciting?
35:05 - David Chen asks - How to find mentors and advisors?
39:25 - building EatNeat asks - What if anything are you specifically looking for in a startup that wants to be a part of the Startup School 2018?
40:00 - Ryan Carl Mercer asks - What's your preferred way organizing your time?
41:05 - John Rigler asks - Can intrapreneurship be effective? I recently returned to IBM, have a patent, and yet have only vague ideas about how to signal and organize other like-minded folks. Could this path sabotage my dreams?
41:55 - Horacio Chávez asks - How would you approach an investor who says "I won't invest unless you have a patent"?
42:35 - Yahya Elamrani asks - Why does it feel like entrepreneurs aren’t marriage material? Should an entrepreneur look for an entrepreneurial spouse?
44:15 - Yahya Elamrani asks - How intense do you really have to be to found a startup?
48:50 - Is there a particular stage of company that's best served by Startup School?
50:35 - How do you get the most out of Startup School?
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