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title:: P/YC Startup School icon:: 🚀 type:: project status:: archive sort-key:: 2022.08 start:: Jun 27th, 2022 end:: Aug 10th, 2022 duration:: 7w score:: 🚀🚀🚀🚀 - **Next Action** collapsed:: true - DONE could wrangle idea maze article as part of this project Aug 2nd, 2022 id:: 62e18588-0df9-4710-91f0-fc96f7539341 - Meeting with Kevin Merlini collapsed:: true - re-collect - hayday - DONE update purpose and outcome for project / yc startup school :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-27 Mon 10:28:07] :END: - TODO reach back out to @KevinMerlini :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-07-12 Tue 18:46:07] CLOCK: [2022-07-12 Tue 18:46:12] :END: - DONE Slack Intro collapsed:: true :LOGBOOK: CLOCK: [2022-06-29 Wed 13:22:55]--[2022-07-06 Wed 12:44:24] => 167:21:29 :END: - Hi all - I’m Sid Sarasvati, located in NYC. I’m super excited to be part of this super engaged community. I'm already inspired by the founder energy in here. I current serve as VP, Engineering for a rapid delivery startup. I have a builder mindset and I'm looking refine my idea or see if I can find a partner to build something awesome together. Looking forward to connecting and meeting some of you in New York. Happy to connect on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidsarasvati - DONE finish reading the course guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/14XTw9Xo9vc34Vj1Es7R707hIL3r60w-v8fD7S1UI-R4/edit# - TODO review forum resources https://www.startupschool.org/posts/46463 - ~~TODO start a immigrants slack channel for immigration stuff~~ - **Open TODOs** collapsed:: true - {{query (and (task todo) project / yc startup school )}} - Important Dates - #Aug 10th, 2022 Final Event. End. - #Jul 7th, 2022 Startup school founders meet up @ @Places/Standard Biergarten, NYC #susmeetup id:: 62c96d40-4aaa-4257-9655-e674d5ecd99f collapsed:: true - Good that I got out to meet the group. The founder energy is good. People are ambitious. I pitched my idea for #thesnitch to couple of people just to get reactions. It doesn't really hit the wow factor as I am unable to get them to see the picture I have. The kid girl who has worked at HBO max called with sci fi and something possible in 100 years Also a part of me gets disappointed when I see high ego, unearned entitlement and bullshitting people. lol. But it's, I guess, the thing to keep in mind is that gems are rare, and you have to go out and find them. Then to connect with them. Ignore all the rest as noise and overhead. Don't take is personally. Met folks of the batch. Some good gems 1. @KevinMerlini - facebook guy 2. @Eric Park coffee marketplace guy Kid with entitled ego and kid with innocent wisdom: 1. @Yannis L the dude claiming to know @aspa JOKR and what not-- holo lens. entitled. #argh 2. Girl looking for tech person to finish her market place for finding trainers etc. Giving me the Block Reference - #Jun 27th, 2022 Init. **Session 1:** we’ll kick off the course collapsed:: true - with advice from YC’s President, @Geoff Ralston and an overview of how the course works. Then YC Group Partner Harj Taggar will give a talk on how to decide if you’re ready to start a startup, and how to put yourself in a position to start a successful company in the future. - Host: @Joan DeGennaro, @Jared Friedman. Zoom Call has 13K people!! - Speaker: @Harj Taggar - project init - Session Notes - All session notes [Session Notes Index](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cia_I9knFYNZ1mWoS8deVtWD-VxGXhRcGqfW-mkGK7g/edit). Taken by @sam shapiro. collapsed:: true - TODO copy each session document to my own drive - **Timeline** - #Jul 27th, 2022 Session 10 - 2 talks collapsed:: true - Web 3 talk with @Nadav Hollander CTO OpenSea, and dudes from Algofi and CoinTracker. All YC founders. - - #Jul 25th, 2022 Session 9: pivoting and how to avoid tarpit ideas. collapsed:: true - [Dalton and Michale YC videos](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5Nd98Sc9I-kkc0ZWe8peRMC) - Consumer startup ideas are full of tarpits. Think shark tank. - - Jul 20th, 2022 collapsed:: true - Founders Social - TODO Sign up - #Jul 18th, 2022 Session 7: On Monday (today!) we’ve got 3 great talks for you. collapsed:: true - First thing at 9AM PT, YC’s head of outreach Kat Manalac will talk about how to launch your product and get publicity for it. collapsed:: true - Notes collapsed:: true - Launch again if first didn’t work. Iterate like you iterate. - One sentence pitch - - Lead with what and why - How to launch (Kat Manalac - 18 July 2022) - If you’re like most startups, you’ll launch something and no one will care. - Always be shipping. Launching is something you do continually. - When to launch? - ASAP - Putting a product even in an unpolished state will give you feedback if people are willing to use it. - Worst case: - Airbnb launched three times before people noticed. - Launch and iterate until a core number of users (~10?) really love the product. It is better to make something that makes a few people really happy than a large number of people moderately happy. - If you think you’re an exception watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0tPjcgcwnQ - Even hard-tech companies launched early. - 1-sentence pitch - Something you need before you launch. - You need clarity of vision. People who have thought something through deeply can explain a complex topic with fewer words. - Also helps with word of mouth growth. - This helps with convincing co-founders, investors, users, employees and shareholders. Anyone should be able to talk about your company in - Some tips: 1. Lead with what, not with why. (Counterintuitive since most people go chronologically). 2. Don’t use meaningless jargon. Someone should know what one needs to build to duplicate their product. (Eg: “personalized” instead of “ML-driven”). 3. X for Y construction can be used in some cases, but one. (Eg: Payze is Stripe for former Soviet Union countries) a. X should be well known. b. Y should want X. c. Y should be a huge market. - Best-one liners are descriptive, conversational, no jargon and concise. - Why launch continuously? - 1. Helps A/B test your pitch. 2. See how users respond to the product. 3. Figure out the right channels. - Types of launches: 1. Silent launch - domain name, company name, short description, contact, call to action (Eg: sign up for newsletters). 2. Friends and family - ask for feedback, but don’t stay in this space for too long. Friends/families may not be your ideal customers/feedback source. 3. Strangers - Doordash met with ~200 small business owners, gathered feedback and built MVP within a few hours. 4. Online communities - startup school, discord, linkedin, HackerNews. (Eg: Robinhood launched in HackerNews and got 50,000+ sign ups in a week) 5. Social media - Twitter,TikTok 6. Pre-order - kickstarter, Indiegogo 7. Waitlist launch - the longer you wait to launch/onboard, the harder it is to convert people. 8. Build your own community - start something like an email list. - When you launch, be authentic. Write like you talk. Don’t get bogged down with too much marketing/promo talk. Press - not a scalable way to get users.Cannot help with getting product market fit. - Everytime you launch a new feature, use all these channels of launching again. - Question and Response - Q: If I launch multiple times, won’t people call me out on this? R: Likely not. People care a lot less than you think. - Q:What exactly is the definition of a launch? R:Anything where you get your idea/product in front of people is a launch. - Q: How should I think if I should open my launch to everyone/make a waitlist? R: If you can take on users, launch to everyone. With a waitlist, the longer you wait, the harder it is to convert them. - Then YC Group Partner Gustaf Alstromer will talk about how to get feedback from users so you know if you’re solving a real problem. - Notes - How to talk to users (Gustaf Alstromer - 18 July 2022) - Most people think startup ideas are born. - How good startup ideas actually happen - founders talk to customers even before they have a product. - Best founders learn directly from users throughout the lifetime of their company. - Eg: In 2010, Brian Chesky lived on Airbnb for several months - helped them understand motivation from their hosts. - Still today, Brian gets phone calls from hosts on their personal phone numbers. 3 ways to come up with a startup idea: 1. You solve a problem you’ve had yourself. 2. You solve a problem you are familiar with but don’t have. 3. You’re solving a problem you are not familiar with. Start with 1st two and go for 3rd only if they don’t work out. User researchers are great resources to learn from. How to find people to interview: 1. Friends/personal network 2. Co-workers 3. People you don’t know - LinkedIn, Reddit, Slack, Discord Talking to users: - Find the right people to talk to. - Reach out to them with a short note. - Video/phone/in-person: 15-30 min. - Start by building rapport. - Don’t introduce your idea/product. - Listen, don’t talk. - Ask open-ended questions. - Take notes. Example questions: - Tell me how you do x today? - What is the hardest thing about doing x? - Why is it hard? - How often do you have to do x? - Why is it important for your company to do x? - What do you do to solve this problem for yourself? If you can watch them do x (Eg: screenshare), that would be great. Example follow-up questions: - What do you mean by that? - Can you tell me more about that? - Why is it important to you? Don’t ask these questions: - Will you use our product? - Which features will make product x better? - Yes/no questions - How would a better product x look like to you? - Two questions at the same time. Danger of focusing on features instead of problems - Users have good problems but bad solutions. (Eg: Airbnb early users wanted phone numbers of hosts (solution), but their problem was a lack of trust in the platform). - Users don’t have incentive to say no to a feature. Next steps: - Synthesize your learnings - take notes from each meeting, organize them and write your conclusions. - Creating a problem/solution hypothesis. - Start sketching an MVP. Is solving this problem valuable? - Are they paying money for solutions in this space? - Do people have solutions that they are already happy with? (Eg: Excel) - How easy is it to sell to these customers/convince them to use your product? (Eg: plumbers/contractors vs startups). Getting user feedback - Show the latest version of the prototype and get feedback. - Don’t tell them what to do. Maybe give a broad goal, but watch them as they do it. - Have them speak their mind while they do it. Keeping interviewee’s involved: - Slack/whatsapp group - give them an exclusive feel. - Show them prototypes. - Provide additional value by connecting them with others. Don’t just look at metrics, talk to users! Airbnb invited hosts to their all employee meetings. Question and Response Q: What do you think of the book “Mom test”? R: Haven’t read the book, but a non-expert can give great feedback. Allows you to use simple language to communicate your ideas. Q: What do I do if I have a two-sided marketplace? R: Do two sets of these interviews. Separate them, have separate hypotheses and test them. Motivations of each side may be different. If you have more than 2 users, you likely haven’t done your prioritization right. Q: User-interview vs potential user-interview? R: Ask questions to see if they are using the product to solve a problem. Q: I am struggling to get people to talk to me. What can I do? R: Start with friends/co-workers before going to strangers. With strangers, there is a law of numbers. Reach out to 100 and you might get a handful who reply. If no one replies, it tells you either about the reaching out message or the customer segment (too hard to sell). In the email, include a little bit about you that interests them. Add social proof in the initial outreach. Sometimes people are willing to respond to emails and then do calls. Also the difficulty of getting user interviews is a proxy for how to get users. - Shortly after, at 11AM PT, we have our first optional talk of Startup School: one primarily for founders interesting in healthcare / bio companies. YC Group Partner Surbhi Sarna who runs the bio program at YC will be telling the story of her own startup - how she built and sold a successful medical device company. It’s an incredible story! - #Jul 13th, 2022 **Session 6:** YC Group Partner Aaron Epstein will talk about different startup business models, how to monetize, and how to price your product. collapsed:: true - Pricing and monetization is one of the most common questions we get from founders, and this is the first time we're giving this talk. - Great Talk! High density information. - The 9 business models for all $1B companies - Marketplace - 14% of top 100 companies and create 30% value - Tough to get off the ground, chicken & egg problem - Massive network effect when they work - Transactional - 22% of top 100 YC companies and create 39% of overall value - As close to the transaction as possible #interesting - Often critical infrastructure for other companies, solving top 3 problems for them - SaaS - 31% of the top 100 yc companies - recurring revenue makes them great business. #ilikethat - Advertising - very few become winners; Only 3% of top 100 yc - Need organic virality to win - Don't sell ads unless you will be a top 10 site... 🤔 - What's NOT in the top 100 list - Services/consulting: non-recurring, scale with people, low margin - Affiliate business: too far away from transaction - Hardware business: requires lot of capital, have low margins #hmm - Business built on other platform: the host platform can turn you off to capture value themselves. - Winners built moats 1. Network effects (Marketplaces) 2. Lock-in/high switching cost (Transactional, Saas, Enterprise) 3. Technical Innovation (Hard tech) 4. pp - Best Businesses - Generate recurring revenue - High retention - .... - - 5 Key Pricing Insights 1. Charge 2. Price on value, not cost 3. Most startups undercharge 4. Price isn't permanent 5. Keep it simple - - #Jul 12th, 2022 Met @kevin Chan pharmacist guy. He has idea to build a wiki or quora for drug side effects. Not sure if he has thought through. He is looking for a tech cofounder. Will meet him again for in-person coffee on Aug 9th, 2022 - #Jul 13th, 2022 **Session 5**: Aaron Epstein is going to talk about startup business models and how to monetize your product. collapsed:: true - He’ll walk through how the top YC companies’ business models work and why some business models are better than others. He’ll also talk about how to to price your product - which is one of the most common questions we get from founders. - Met @KevinMerlini for a call. Wow. How much did he remind me of that bugger @wes bilman yuck. lol - #Jul 11th, 2022 **Session 4:** On Monday we’re doing two talks in one to make it relevant for everyone. collapsed:: true - For those of you who _haven’t_ launched anything, Michael Seibel will give you advice on how to shrink your MVP so you can launch faster. For those of you who _have_ launched, Divya Bhat is going to explain how to pick which metrics to focus on, and show you data on the early growth of top YC companies - #Jul 6th, 2022 **Session 4: The inside Story of Replit: how a side project became a $1B company** collapsed:: true - Amjad Replit and Haya Replit, the founders of Replit, will tell the story of how they went from growing up in Jordan, to moving to Silicon Valley and eventually creating a billion dollar company beloved by developers. It's an extraordinary story with huge ups and downs that's never before been told in public. - Amjad Replit joined YC Startup School 2013. Flying from NYC to California at that time. - Failed YC few times. - Turned down $1B acquisition offer - #Jul 5th, 2022 **Session 3: How to Get and Evaluate Startup Idea.** collapsed:: true - YC Group Partner Jared Friedman will give a talk on how to get and evaluate startup ideas. He'll share many examples of YC companies and the inside story of how they came up with the ideas that turned into billion dollar companies. Even if you have an existing idea, this talk is worth going to because it will help you confirm that your current idea really is good. You also might need to pivot and find a new idea in the future - and if so, this talk will help. - SISP Ideas - Solution in search of a problem - Tarpit Ideas - common ideas that are surprisingly difficult - Founder market fit - Recipe 6 - Find opportunity is something that recently changed in the world - policy etc. Example - Chekr - building API for background check collapsed:: true - TODO research more - Example of companies capturing paradigm shifts - #refactor - From Lenny's Newsletter - **Spotify:** Daniel Ek realized that the future of music was paid. - “**I realized that you can never legislate away from piracy. The only way to solve the problem was to create a service that was better than piracy** and at the same time compensates the music industry. That gave us Spotify.” - @Daniel Ek CEO and founder, via _[Fast Company](https://substack.com/redirect/2e7b2953-b504-43a8-bd70-2f5d6699496d?u=96795860)_ - **Amazon:** Jeff Bezos noticed that the web was growing 2,300**%** a year and found a product that would most benefit from being sold online: books. - “I was in New York City working for a quantitative hedge fund when **I came across the startling statistic that web usage was growing at 2,300% a year. So I decided I would try and find a business plan that made sense in the context of that growth,** and I picked books as the first best product. I made a list of like 20 different products that you might be able to sell, and books were great as the first product because books are incredibly unusual in one respect—that is that there are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category by far. Music is number two. There are about 200,000 active music CDs at any given time, but in the book space, they are more than 3 million different books worldwide, active, and printed at any given time.” - @Jeff Bezos via [YouTube](https://substack.com/redirect/3ac20acc-53e0-406e-917d-e1405a2dfedd?u=96795860) - collapsed:: true **23andme:** Anne Wojcicki realized that genetic information was suddenly cheap and available. - “I happened to be—when I was investing on Wall Street—**I happened to realize genetic information, it was suddenly cheap to get access to a broad amount of information on your genome**. And I was really lucky noticing that, one, suddenly, individuals could get access to your genome. And then there was this whole convergence of Web 2.0. There was going to be social networks. And you’re going to find each other. And it was hot. It was so interesting. And I suddenly realized that one of the things that’s a big issue in health care is there’s a lack of data. So routinely, my sister, who does nutrition research, said: you look at those studies, and it’s like 200 patients here, 200 there. And my dad, who is a particle physicist, would be like: anyone who knows about statistics knows you can’t find anything in this. You need lots of data. And clearly, the Google world had taught me the value of lots of data and what you can do with it. So I got lucky with this idea of, why do I need Stanford? Why do I need Pfizer to go and do all this research? I can just allow all these people to learn about their genome. It’s so cool. Learn about your genetics. And then we’re going to bring everyone together in this whole new research model. It’s going to be like crowdsourcing. We’re going to have the world’s data. I don’t need Stanford and Pfizer and all these other people. I don’t want you to be a human subject. I want it to be a live participant, excited in research. So we had this idea of really marrying this idea of cool technology with this concept of Web 2.0. And we launched the company.” - Anne Wojcicki via [Talks at Google](https://substack.com/redirect/601f4bb1-9d61-4c08-98b1-46aec99e1011?u=96795860) - **Instacart:** Max Mullen and Apoorva Mehta noticed the rise of on-demand ridesharing and delivery services. - “I had several life experiences over the 10 years leading up to starting the company that eventually gave me the insight that this would become a huge consumer need. **They included early adopting Web 1.0 delivery services, a business plan I wrote in college for a food marketplace, and then seeing the early days of ridesharing in 2011 after moving to San Francisco.** Once I had that insight in April 2012, I was on a warpath to start this company, and I started telling my smartest friends about the idea and getting their feedback. By luck, one of them was Brandon, who introduced me to Apoorva in June 2012, and he had a similar consumer insight from working at Amazon. Then Apoorva and I brought Brandon on as our third co-founder in July 2012, and the rest is history.” - @Max Mullen - **Stitch Fix:** Katrina Lake noticed that retail was going to move online. - “I moved on from Parthenon to become an associate at Leader Ventures, a VC firm, just as the iPhone appeared, in 2007. I was thinking about retail. I studied the economics of Blockbuster during the rise of Netflix. On one side was a company that dominated physical store sales; on the other was a company that dominated sales without stores. It was the perfect case study. And I could see exactly when the scale tipped. Whenever Netflix hit about 30% market share, the local Blockbuster closed. The remaining 70% of customers then faced a decision: try Netflix or travel farther to get movies. More of them tried Netflix, putting more pressure on Blockbuster. Another store would close, and more customers would face that try-or-travel decision, in a downward spiral.** I recognized that other retailers might suffer Blockbuster’s fate if they didn’t rethink their strategy. For example, how would someone buy jeans 10 years down the road? I knew it wouldn’t be the traditional model: go to six stores, pull pairs of jeans off the racks, try them all on. And I didn’t think it would resemble today’s e-commerce model either: You have 15 tabs open on your browser while you check product measurements and look for what other shoppers are saying. Then you buy multiple pairs and return the ones that don’t fit.** The part of me that loves data knew it could be used to create a better experience with apparel.” = @Katrina Lake via [Harvard Business Review](https://substack.com/redirect/d34b50d7-6918-44aa-bbe2-0f3548a6964a?u=96795860) - Could add JOKR story as well in here - #Jun 29th, 2022 **Session 2:** We’re going to broadcast this talk live from the headquarters of Boom Supersonic collapsed:: true - a YC startup that’s building a supersonic passenger jet. You’ll get a live tour of their aircraft hangar, and you’ll get to hear the founder Blake Scholl tell the story of starting this extraordinary company. Definitely one you won’t want to miss! - **Outcome Visioning** collapsed:: true - **Purpose** collapsed:: true - Use Startup School to figure out whether doing a startup is right for you. If you don’t have an idea you’re committed to, use Startup School to find one. If you don’t have a cofounder, try cofounder matching. - Learn, Get clarity on path, meet other founders and like minded people. Ability to imagine my startup launch path. - **Outcome** - Make 2 connection with founders - Find (or create)and go to a NYC meetup ✅ - Define your Idea #The Big Idea - **Resources** collapsed:: true - Week 7 - For those of you doing the [Showcase](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9js1uhSAQRp9Gdhh-BLwLFt30NQyOg5J4hcBY07evtkmTWZ2cL3POhnVKi5d6GF-CLX4YVDQseasQnJpxMVJOUiJIuBWnoRtEKlw6xaXlSiqux_5s_MJGXPWQ3-Uk7NNBWI-w9--Qdrb5GeUI0RgUo40gZm0iLnp2IMBoFyPb_UZUOv3Rqc_7GoVKZ2mw5bz3ua4P2_IFoSErudETPbjRGlZ9S0sLNbSvQOnOW5-fTwkjf-DFH50fmVJMcBv5uPkv-9ujl9a8rNVCj-yNrYUVJ_ou-D_-AQ2vXrE), you’ll kick off the final week by presenting your company there. On Monday, YC Group Partner and head of admissions Dalton Caldwell will talk about how and when to apply to YC. This isn’t a basic talk about the logistics of applying, which you can read on our website - it’s a much deeper look into how we think about investing in startups and why so much advice that you hear about applying to YC is wrong. - On Wednesday, we’re going to end Startup School on a high note by having Paul Graham come back to talk with current president Geoff Ralston about the past and future of Y Combinator. - Week 6 - On Monday we had Catheryn Li and Divya Bhat’s terrific talk about cofounders. Here are [the official sides](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j0tPwzAQhH9NfXPkR-IkBx-giCLRgpB4Xypjb1Krqe3GDgV-PU6RkHYvo29md6YI49YaSXnZtAQZWZasq5CVgoGu2QeYitItpaCpzkjN9aIkNmBaM0wFZpRh3hRTxCeICbNC-0OYEhTWJRidGoqDsgPaybrLjpaDaJUhoiVl25lOGM1ERwyvCRrkLqUQF_xiwa7zGK9j0XvfDzCHZiWMEMEllax3M5CXuvfV0-pI-7dgXte3D_d8-XNzt-GXx_04_jxulvblazJXm2ez3mccjE0o-JjmxmXdiAqNMloT1ajiZw7O3fr54fkiStLBCc84dj7Zzurz6ayftT8_SCqqVghOeIMOEKPqYZu-A_ybfwGNdnGq), a [detailed summary](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j81qwzAQhJ_Gusnoz5Jz0KGXNi1tKIFAycUo8tpRsSVjyUn99pUbKOzCMnyzu7NEmBvXaspFvSOo1UKwrkJOSwZWsQu0FaUNpWCpzYjithDETZgqhqnEjDLM63KJ-A4xYVbaME5LgtL5BLM3QzkaN6CrlobQjhBeE8G7Tlho5QUqpfiOV9xWFg36mtIUC_5UsOdcbbCx7EPoB9iWPpRlBJ-2MTclpw9Pxz7ehq_l5XP_djwfv9d3Y_c_zeHsljWFU_cqDsqv94xD6xKaQkxbWqFqWaFZR9dGM5t4M8nlXP327HYNJe3hjjcc-5Bc52wmgs_6n_bwg6ay2knJcyw0QoymhyatE_ybfwHZTnCO) by Sam Shapiro, a [Twitter thread by @jake_stevens](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T8tuwzAM-5r65sCSH3EOPuyy3whcR2m95YVYabC_n7MCA3QQCZIgj0J7n4cA2vhOiSEYg6MVOTik1OKdBgvQA1CCVCWtTjej8iahRQlOIqDUvjmKPKmwxCat83YwNXlh2pc4NXPMk3iGqExqfWexG6OKd29hSIoijgY1JuPFFJ7MW7npjxt-1uMzc424AisqHL-p_6IXLeUN-bgesNaAVb7TxnXYGgAjtrXwNcm03lmxh5KHEvdYXpFzLf-4Gl2xgsNCp7zkclk5jzlVxbpU_o97-ymAs51zWmkvZiolPqjnn43-zb-iBWUn), another [thread by @tanmay310](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j81uhDAMhJ-G3ILi_BEOOeylr4FCMLuRloCIKdq3b9JKlXwYWzOfxlfBc0qLB6XdKNjitZarYclbiXGQMy4GYALACLFaBhU7LdLBYZAcLJcguXL9VfiNhbjs474dF2GfMuGZw7vfQnqzl9duAR3tAKNVoEDGOEtjghBCjnNcLXv7F9FROvXo5FcduhNVRAO2LeQtfBSIqgsFukoVYIwGa8CKESpHWOHYsRdq_-jBWcNOX9JSwhnKd6BUmz9bncZk5DPevNl53imtKVbHnuv99_aXR1_5o7VKKMc2LCU8caLPgf_hH2mwYpk), and a [very thorough one](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T8tuwzAM-5r65sDyOwcfdtlvBK6ttgbyQqSs2N_P2YABOlAESZAn4TG1msDYOCpRk7X64URLXmMJ-o7VAUwAWKB0STDlZlXbJQQtwUsNWpo4nCTfSCz1ULZlPxmHtjIea56HJbdZvBKOoQKo4u4AdzdWhTGiKjo4rayHKOb0Yt7pZj5u-rMfvxv3iCuwf_lBZWPuiDjzSR2AcxZsNGrUAC4oCF7sG_G1xobonTgStUr5yPSVufXez6vMlSg4rfiWl1yuG7dHK12xrZ3_5f78mMC70XujTBQLEuUnTvy947_5BwJVYoQ) by @afscott.  This is the [cofounder trial agreement](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j81qwzAQhJ_GuslYkvWTgw65FFrIoYdA6cUo0koRtS1jyU2ap6_cQGEXluGb3Z0twzpEpwnr1aFDTvc99RxFLShYSS_gOCEDIWCJrYhktum7uGAiKSYCU0IxU-2W8Q1ywbS1aVq2Am2cC6yzGdvJxBFdteFKdWC9VMDAg5EehKKKG--5Y9yhUV9LWXLDjg19qeWSzW1IKYywL30q2wRz2cfaJHcQ7me_nOyDv2b5drxM_UOdpfwQ3fvBfp64_DIhjHdpKw4uFrSkXPa0vVSCo1Xn6LJZTf42JdZcYX92v4aKnuGGdxzPqUQfbSXSXPU_7ekHTQQ_CME6ptAEOZsAQ_lZ4N_8CxdccD0) they mentioned. - Then we had Diana Hu with her talk: “How to build and succeed as a technical founder”. Here are the [official slides](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T8tqhDAU_ZrJLmIeJnGRReljoEOnUEq7HGJy1YAaMXGc-fuaFgr3bg7nuUZYLt5pwriqS-Q057StkNeCgpW0AVcRciEELLE7RTJ74KWfMZEUE4EpoZipYo14g5gwLWwY5zVB4acEy2SGYjR-QL0WUhgHitQCLGvqVkpFqGQVOEXbkpZo0H1KczywhwN92c8FG4suhG6AbLoj8wIRpmSSD1Mm7E_46e34zP0W8JPbTh_N7fP82H93_n29v7Lyq7_VYjzya5PO2RacT2gOMeXFXCpRoUVH76JZTLzuxvu2LhfOiSjpCTac6XgKybfe_kbv-C_2pwdNRFULwUqm0Agxmg4u6T7Dv_gHIi9w-A) and a [detailed writeup](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j09rwzAMxT9NfXOIbMdODj6UQekOY2Md63Yqqa2mhsQOsdM_-_RzVhhIIB6_J-nNEaeDsxq4qJuSWC0EO1XEacnQKHZEWwEcANCAyYjiZiVKN1JQjIKkDBjldTFHesWYKCtMGMY5YeF8wsm3fTG0ridnLSuwqMxJVdhYwU3dGHmUtlHSgKiPFen1OaUxrvh6xTa5bDCx6ELoelyWPpR5QJ-WMTf45x34z23zst9CeftyT0JJLn8288fl9XLbfb-3_X1-M8O0NxlH6xIZQ0xLWqFqWZFJR2djO7Xx0iaXc3XLs8s1krTHK11w6kNyJ2cyEXzW_7SHHzXIqpGSl7wmA8bYdnhI9xH_zb-HRW_X)from Sam. Diana wrote a [Twitter thread](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T7tqxDAQ_Bqrk9Hq7UJFIFyqSxtIY2R57yy4s421jsnfR04gsMXsMDs7sxfc-jwGUNp3go1Ba3kzLAcrMTk54GgAegBMkKrEqdRokVcOTnKwXILkyrd74QcW4rJNy3PdCds8E25zfLTPmB9sClp0Fv0wRIiD1AO6BD6Kzrjk_KiNY48wEa2lUS-NvNShI1O1OA3rVsYc5zjtJ6RIe6kAjNFKKJBaQadE56Vu1KU6vEpopKUKPvn1jbDXg7-OW__hRe_x_WDrUugsrZ23hm2h5LHELZavSLnWu5-Zz8eMwowHP-V8XijfcqqKZa78L_d3jwGs6aytWTx7Yinxjj19r_h__ANgu25E) summarizing her talk, and Jake Stevens wrote a [great in-depth one too](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T8tuhDAM_JrNLSjOm0MOe-lvoJSY3bQQEDGL-vcNXamyD57RzGh8VNyHnAIo7XvBUtBaToblYCWOTn5iMgADAI4wNolT402LvHFwkoPlEiRXvjsqP7ESl924LttB2OVCuJc4d0vMM3uGyUvvpEIvjOqTtcKg8m00KDDJKjaHJ9FWb-p-kx9t6czUIq7AhirFbxy-8IWlviEd1wHGaHA9aAdCgrbGSratla6XtPPWsD3UnGrcY31Fyq3842p0xTIKBU9-yXlZKU95bIq1NP6Pe_sxgDW9tUoozxasNT5woJ8N_82_qPlj6A) - On Wednesday, Brad Flora gave an amazing talk: “How startup fundraising works in 2022”. Here are [the official slides](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9UE1rhDAU_DXmFsmHxnjIYRe7sFBKobSlvUhMnhrqGjFxt_33jVsovHcZZubNvC3A2jqrKC9kTZBVRcH6EjklGJiKdWBLSltKwVCTKBU3WUHcgmnFMBWYUYa5zLeAbxAiZrnxl2WLkLs5wjrrKb9oN6FRUQYFENLVopSdFpYkN1L3smSdrgkTaFJjjEvI-CFjpzTWm5AP3g8T7KYJWVYIMEcdnZ93Qlp6foLx6F_M9tmd47y9fjw05nYc5ffX2-H6PsSTG57r5rG_dibRwbqYMR4mZyHjjbP5AIQxUWpqeUvaWqLFh7j_o6ikKNGqgrNBrzpc09nUfNjr7HlQVDPc8E7Hs4-ud-YeLOF37E8PioqyFoITLtEFQtADtPFngX_xL8Aden4), which also have organized links to all the earlier content YC produced about fundraising. Hunter wrote a [nice summary](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9j81uhDAQg5-G3IKSyS-HHHrZ10AhGdiR2IBI2FXfvtBKlXyybH32WfEYKQeptB8Ey0FrmA2jYAGTgwmzkXKUEpNMV8Sp1GlBO5cOuLQcJHDl-7PyD9bGoU_baz8b9lQaHiWu_SvSyp7BeK2nmGEYlLFRCnAJwOIknVBpFpmt4dnaXjv11cHjUt4OioW_Y6F1jVyZuS9bo630lRpeAc8Vf5wlH5EqlYXjJCyYZGaPSU_aT0oNAB6cAZMvEtu32u6r2nlr2BEq5RqPWN-x0XVquZfe-1kLBT_8jvMbOVOKN_jyf72_PgZpzWCtEsqzF9YaFxzb947_5R8ajmy9) of the talk, and @afscott has a [terrific Twitter thread](https://email.email.ycombinator.com/c/eJw9T0FuhDAQew25BWUmJIRDDr30Gygbht1ILCBmKOrvG1qp0hw8lm3ZJ9MxlimC7cJg1BS7DmenSvRIuccHTQ5gBKAMuUp6m5vOlF1Djxq8RkBtQ3uyvohFY5u3934KtWUVOta0tO9UFvWK5IZpApOSyQ8z97On5GYMGbAfOgxWLfElsnNjPxr8rCdXkRpxB9YvzZw3kYpYkpxcAThX-zgYjEdvcHA-qH1judd0ffBOHZHLxOlI_JWk1N7Pu8ydqCSudOlbrtdNylxyVWxr5X-5Pz9F8G7w3hob1JuY05NG-d7p3_wDpXRjWg). - [SUS Resources](https://www.startupschool.org/posts/46463) - [Cirriculum](https://www.startupschool.org/curriculum) - [Course Guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Tcjb2BjPDBFf5YOco_xEwEshWgJS-U9sF5pLp115VM/edit) - Meetups and Matching - TODO singup of cofounder matching - TODO join to meetup whatapp group for NYC - Antlr - In October 2022, Antler US will have concurrent programs running in three US cities: Austin, New York City, and Boulder, CO. Our programs will be broken out into two phases: - Phase 1: In Phase 1, founders will have 6 weeks to develop an idea and plan of action. There's no coursework here: your entire focus will be on turning your ideas into investable businesses. - Pitch Week: Founders have the opportunity to pitch Antler's Investment Team for a $150,000 post money SAFE for 7% of your new company. - Phase 2: From here on, it's an all out sprint on execution. You'll work with your dedicated Antler coach to build a clear plan, setting key objectives and KPIs that you and your team will need to hit to ensure your business finds product market fit and continues scaling. Antler US invests exceptional pre-seed stage founders building scalable technologies ventures. Founders must have either a US green card or US citizenship to work with Antler US. - - Project Summary - 7 week course; 2 talks a week; every Monday and Wednesday 12:00 - 13:30 PM ET - Gave it 4 out of 5 tentative. - the 2 kevins I met - Missed Sus showcase deadline for pitch.