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3 days ago

@gregisenberg Use this in perfect order and you unstoppable

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4 days ago

This is the best article I have read on how to grow on X….

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5 days ago

I read the founding stories of YC companies that started in non-tech industries. Here's the pattern. A consistent thread in YC batches that doesn't get enough attention: the companies where the founder came from a completely non-tech background, a nurse who built healthcare software, a contractor who built construction tools, a chef who built restaurant management software. I collected and read every founding story of this type I could find from YC alumni. The pattern is remarkably consistent. Phase 1: The founder knows the industry deeply and finds the existing tools inadequate. Not "I researched tools in this space." I tried every tool in this space for years and none of them understood how the work actually happens. and this is true for myself been 16+ years in construction and i cant find that suits my requirement... Phase 2: The founder builds something crude for themselves. A spreadsheet. A script. A Notion template with automations. Something that works well enough for their specific workflow even though it wouldn't work for anyone else. Phase 3: A colleague or peer sees it and asks for it. The request comes before the founder thinks of it as a product. This is the pull signal, someone outside the founder wanted the thing before it was packaged for them. Phase 4: The founder packages it, shows it to more people in the industry, discovers the problem is universal. Not just their shop. Every shop. Every clinic. Every site. Phase 5: The application writes itself. Because the founder has been living the problem for years, every YC application question has a specific, lived answer. They don't need to research. They're describing what they experienced. This is founder-market fit made concrete. You can't manufacture Phase 1 quickly. But if you're in an industry with inadequate tools, you might already be in Phase 2 without realizing it. Been collecting this story from last 5 Months, have collected about 86+ such founder stories, who pivoted, rejected, applied again and succeed at YC, happy to share if someone needs it...

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9 days ago

Hot take: The YC application doesn't get better the longer you write it. It gets worse. The best applications are written in 48 hours by founders who've been building for 6 months. Write fast. Build long.

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9 days ago

@TTrimoreau Go straight on building the things... Without checking the cost calculations behind that product before building....

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10 days ago

@hthieblot This is the investors version of Fake it till you make it

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10 days ago

@sundarpichai What's the context here?

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