Y Combinator

What would you want to ask Y Combinator's most successful startup founders?

1 year ago | [YT] | 181



@pstrongu

1) What your founder’s team was great at and what was your weakest skill? 2) What you were afraid of a lot that turned out to be nonimportant?

1 year ago | 20

@RafiDude

1) As YC’s most successful startup, what differentiated you from other YC startups? 2) If you are YC selecting startups for a new batch, what would you look for in terms of team, idea, current traction etc.?

1 year ago | 4

@poal5642

Founder : 1) Why did you start a startup? 2) How did you meet your Co-Founder? 3) What made you to think that your Co-Founder is the right one to start a company with? Idea : 1) Where did you find your customers' problem in the first time? 2) What made you think that your customers' problem is worth solving? 3) How did you validate your idea? etc : Can you recommend me any contents (book, youtube, ...) that helped you to (1) run your company in general (2) overcome the hardship (3) manage people well?

1 year ago (edited) | 9

@natalipierson98

Growing a business is said to be a marathon, not a sprint. What do you do to recuperate?

1 year ago | 1

@XasanCarab-t2l

1)How did you know that this is the right startup to start? 2) is passion overrated when starting a startup?

1 year ago | 0

@DTrackFinder

How should you price your product if it sells direct to consumers and B2B2C? The conflict is: if you price too low, the businesses won’t have enough interest in selling your service, and if you’re too pricy, you’ll be out of reach for many consumers. Thanks a lot! Don

1 year ago | 0

@NRV542

1) How do you SUCCEED in getting your STARTUP IDEA at the Y COMBINATOR and how was your JOURNEY proceeding until now?? What's that Secret Sauce 😅 that we should apply for getting into the Y COMBINATIOR

1 year ago | 0

@honey.badger

What advice/criticism/feedback should you have ignored, yet what advice/criticism/feedback should you have considered more?

1 year ago | 2

@uurk5lo4

1) What advice would you give to a startup founder looking for initial funding? What are the common mistakes to avoid? What are the key points to never miss? 2) What criterias must never be ignored while recruiting talent? What are the 3 most important questions to ask a potential candidate? 3) What are the key internal processes to have and that should change in the journey from a starting up to becoming a unicorn? 4) Through the journey of a startup, What is the mindset shift required in the founder when the company is just of handful of employees to dealing with hundreds of employees across multiple core functions in the company? What are the key stages of this mindset shift, towards employees, VC's, vendors, society, customers? 5) What are the top 5 critical measures/data points to keep looking out for in a startup? 6) What are the top 3 measures/days points to look out for in each of these functions. Recruiting, HR, customer service, Sales, Costing, benchmarking. Thank you!

1 year ago | 0

@samqwertyu

How did they gain entry, and what distinct personality trait or idea enabled their inclusion in Y Combinator?

1 year ago | 0

@stash_necklace

How did they found out that this is the right idea to dedicate their time to since they’re huge number of ideas around? How did they validate the idea on the earliest stage to start working on that full time?

1 year ago | 0

@amjiw

How you have arrived at what product to start with.....and how you went ahead with SWOT analysis of it.

1 year ago | 1

@chrisgreiner854

How did you build the culture and scaled it?

1 year ago | 1

@nacho01998

Which books were useful or important to start the company?

1 year ago | 1

@sanjayplays5010

How would you get your first ten customers if you had to start over with no pre-existing network?

1 year ago | 1

@KPZivot

How startups affected their relationships with their partner or loved ones.

1 year ago | 0

@LazizbekYusupov92

How to start selling. Being brave enough, to ask money for an incomplete product. After getting funds, what are the next steps and what sort of specialists are involved in the process?

1 year ago | 1

@AbhishekKumar-sw4yc

When we start a startup,there are so many problem are coming so my question is how do you face that problem and how you think on that particular problem?

1 year ago | 0

@ianalmeida4759

What are some good qualities in a co-founder? (And also some red flags to keep in mind)

1 year ago | 0

@ianalmeida4759

How to pivot? what are some best practices in a successful pivot?

1 year ago | 0