The Biggest Mistakes First-Time Founders Make - Michael Seibel

Y Combinator CEO and Partner Michael Seibel on the biggest mistakes first-time founders make.

https://twitter.com/mwseibel

Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year.

Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/

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Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Introduction
00:10 - Solving a problem you don't care about
01:01 - Helping users you don't care about
01:47 - Choosing co-founders you don't know well
02:22 - Not having transparent conversations with your co-founders
03:20 - Not launching
04:45 - Not using analytics
05:02 - Not knowing where your first users will come from
05:47 - Poor prioritization