YC’s Essential Startup Advice

YCombinator Basic Income Research Proposal. For the past year, we’ve been putting together the best possible research plan to study the effects of... (2017)

YC’s Essential Startup Advice By Geoff Ralston and Michael Seibel (2017)

YC founders respond to the question: What are some things that you should've known as a first-time founder but did not? We operate a platform ca... (2018)

YCombinator blog, 2017: Discussion with – Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt (2017)

YCombinator, Sam Madden, 2017: "We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specifi... (2017)

Published on Feb 9, 2015 Hear Sam Altman speak about how to get funded by Y Combinator, the danger of some incubators, and other great startup adv... (2017)

Startup ideas aren’t actually a scarce resource. In fact, they’re only becoming more abundant -- as the world moves faster and more new businesses ... (2017)

Y Combinator, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years, is making broad, organizational changes-- for the second time this year. Most drama... (2017)

Startup advice from many YC partners distilled into one document. YCombinator. Written by Sam Altman We spend a lot of time advising startups... (2017)

Build something users love, and spend less than you make. YCombinator. Paul Graham essay. March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the... (2017)

Above all, understand your users. YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I lea... (2017)

YCombinator. Paul Graham Essay: October 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.) How do you get good ideas for ... (2017)

YCombinator. Paul Graham's essays: April 2006. (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2006 Startup School.) The startups we've funded so far ... (2017)

Stanford University: Published on Apr 5, 2017 Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator, and Dustin Moskovitz, Cofounder of Facebook and Asana, kick o... (2017)

YCombinator. Paul Graham essay: October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing th... (2017)

YCombinator. Paul Graham's essays: July 2013 One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. ... (2017)

Y Combinator Published on Mar 22, 2017 Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal and Palantir, discusses business strategy and monopoly theory in "Competi... (2018)

"For most founders, selling a company is a life changing event that they have had no training for. At Y Combinator, one big thing we help our start... (2016)

Some of the biggest technology companies look like toys in the beginning. From a classical business building perspective, this shouldn't happen. To... (2018)

Y Combinator Published on Jul 24, 2017 Jessica gave this talk at the 2017 Female Founders Conference. (2018)

We’re approaching the S18 application deadline so we thought it’d be helpful to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about the YC app... (2018)

There are few things more dangerous to startups than Big Deals. Founders lie to themselves by believing that catching a single Big Deal will automa... (2018)

Here’s how to make a solid Demo Day slide deck. The thing to remember is that you already have everything you need to create a great presentation. ... (2019)