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Startup School 2019 by the Numbers by Kevin Hale and Adora Cheung

Startup School by Y Combinator

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What Are You Working On?

Ten single founders got in from start scool. We average around ten % of the batch is around sol founders now, if not a little bit more than that. So how can you replicate their success? It's very simple. Be clear on what you're working on, no jargon. Don't use all the words in the dictionary. Be very concise. And how you get your point across. Start up school companies used an average of 78 words to describe what they do. The best thing you can do is when you talk about your start up, thereis a question on the applications, what are you making? To be very clear atit.

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