The Boogie Man Is Not There

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Running a startup, you're exposed every day to how screwed your company is. And it's so easy to assume that if you're having a hard time, everybody else must be having a great time when everyone ishaving a hard time. But as a partner, you work with these companies and you start realizing that like all of them are badly flawed somehow.

Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss the traps founders often fall into when looking at the competition. They identify the particular types of companies you should watch out for and many more you are wasting your time worrying about.

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