What I Learned From My First Month at Y Combinator
The text discusses lessons learned during the first month of participating in Y Combinator (YC), a startup accelerator program. Key points include understanding that sales is primarily a search problem, sending large volumes of emails to potential customers, seeking commitment from customers and accepting "no" as valuable feedback, focusing on customer problems rather than product features, managing time effectively during the program, learning more from failure stories than success stories, viewing startups as businesses first and foremost, and understanding the concept of product-market fit.
Company
Encord
Date published
Nov. 11, 2022
Author(s)
Eric Landau
Word count
2011
Language
English
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