The Secrets to YC's Essential Startup Advice with Y Combinator with Michael Seibel

0:00 YC Essential Startup Advice 6:11 Build something people want Your product must serve your customer's need this is business not art 8:41 Do things that don't scale The superpower of every smal software startup 10:49 Find the 90/10 solution How do you get 90% of what you want with only 10% of the work? 18:07 You will need to fire some customers It is hard to figure out who has the problems you can actually solve 21:06 Scaling too late is harmful, scaling too early is fatal. 25:31 Don't make decisions based on fear alone Take some time to think about what happens if things go right 30:56 Take care of your mental health Because no one else will.. 33:13 Discipline beats itelligence most of the time Most startups know what they have to do. The best ones do it 38:07 Questions Want to join the SaaStr community? We're the 🌎largest community for B2B software. Subscribe for weekly updates: https://www.saastr.com/subscribeform Twitter: https://twitter.com/saastr LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2724976 Quora Group: https://www.quora.com/q/cloud Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SaaStr/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saastr/ Our North American Event: https://bit.ly/2OXeAYh Our European Event: https://bit.ly/2OZTad8