Y Combinator Application How-To<\/a>.<\/p>\nHere are my favorite sound bytes:<\/p>\n
‘Whatever you have to say, give it to us right in the first sentence, in the simplest possible terms.’<\/p>\n
‘The first question I look at is the 7th, “What is your company going to make?”‘<\/p>\n
“The best answers are the most matter of fact. It’s a mistake to use marketing-speak to make your idea sound more exciting. We’re immune to marketing-speak; to us it’s just noise.”<\/p>\n
“One test of whether you’re explaining your idea effectively is to ask how close the reader is to reproducing it.”<\/p>\n
“One good trick for describing a project concisely is to explain it as a variant of something the audience already knows. It’s like Wikipedia, but within an organization.”<\/p>\n
“If a group of founders seemed impressive enough, I’d fund them with no idea.”<\/p>\n
“The reason a lot of big companies’ software sucks is that they have some kind of natural monopoly.”<\/p>\n
“The best startup ideas are generally outliers that seem crazy to most people initially.”<\/p>\n
“If this wasn’t already clear, we’re not looking for the sort of obedient, middle-of-the-road people that big companies tend to hire. We’re looking for people who like to beat the system.”<\/p>\n
“Investors are optimists.”<\/p>\n
“Most people are threatened by ambition.”<\/p>\n
“Tell investors you’re going to start the next Google and they immediately perk up. They don’t default to skepticism, because they like risky bets.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Next year I definitely want to apply to Y Combinator. It’s simply not fun anymore to look at a bug list and make it smaller. It’s simply not fun to tell people over and over again to use best practices that are already 5 years old. Instead, I think it will be more fun to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}