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Save Your Startup during an Economic Downturn

Y Combinator · Youtube · 3 HN points · 1 HN comments
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Youtube Summary
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss Paul Graham's essay "Default Alive or Default Dead." They share strategies to cut your company's burn rate and keep your startup alive to see another day.

Paul Graham's essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html
Trevor Blackwell's startup growth calculator: http://growth.tlb.org

Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
Work at a startup: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Introduction
00:23 - Default alive or default dead
02:14 - The calculator
02:59 - Founder's distraction - Fundraising game
07:32 - Fundraising leverage
09:57 - Math are different
11:29 - Kill or cure
15:37 - The fatal pinch
19:22 - Tough decisions when default dead
19:40 - Headcount
20:46 - Ad Spend
22:50 - Raising prices
25:16 - Personal bankruptcy - Taking a big hit to growth rate
26:28 - Twitch's pirate ship
32:22 - Takeaways
32:27 - Survive to thrive
33:15 - To burn or not burn
34:06 - 10x better if operationally intensive business

#ycombinator #startups #burnrate
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"Default Alive" - http://www.paulgraham.com/aord.html

"pre-product market fit" - links to a list of resources: - The only thing that matters by Marc Andreessen https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html - What is “product/market fit” by Emmett Shear: https://twitter.com/eshear/status/1155180521485242368?lang=e... - Andy Rachleff on “How to Know If You’ve Got Product Market Fit” https://greatness.floodgate.com/episodes/andy-rachleff-on-ho... - How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit by Rahul Vohra https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine... - The real product market fit by Michael Seibel https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5z-the-real-product-mark... - Jeff Chang's blog - specifically his take on retention as measure of PMF https://www.growthengblog.com/ - Sequoia's Doug Leone discusses PMF https://streamable.com/rm7pr7 - Dalton Caldwell & Michael Seibel discuss PMF https://youtu.be/UqKzpLqXuI0

"Series A Milestones" - links to a private resource available only to YC founders

"Save your startup during an economic downturn" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OVSTWozvfY

upupandup
can somebody share the Series A Milestones resources?
om42
Is the internal Series A Milestones different than the Series A Guide: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/14-series-a-guide
adamqureshi
THANK YOU!
babelfish
Thanks for sharing. Would be cool if you could share some of the Series A Milestones.
May 09, 2022 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by raviparikh
May 06, 2022 · 2 points, 0 comments · submitted by tosh
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