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Parting Advice by Geoff Ralston

Startup School by Y Combinator

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The Story of a Co-Founder

We have so many stories like this at y c, of founder's overcoming adversity with determination, grit, resourcefulness. The canonical story at wyceas is the arbean b founders who actually made cereal and sold it to survive. We were almost at the finish line, maybe a week or two or three away, and zack cancelled the whole deal. Our company had focused exclusively on this for so long, we were lost. But we didn't give up after that. We built new services. Six months later, we were purchased by apple for almost a hundred million dollars.

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