Startup School Parting Advice

In Short, Write Codes, Talk to Customer, Make the product the customer want. Be good to everyone you work with. Failure is mandatory, don’t be sad. default to Action. Find your path, find your own unique path to startup success.

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founders continue on their journey to make something people wan

every single one has a different path, every founder has a different path.

PG hadn't started Y Combinator yet. We couldn't go online to ask basic questions about how to start a startup. Actually, there wasn't even online back then. Venture capitalists were these mysterious suits who only would talk to MBA's.

Trevor https://www.ycombinator.com/people.html

focus on what you've learned at Startup School. Stay connected with the community, use the updates, use the forum, talk to people

make something that people want

Keep track of your progress, make sure you know where your value is added, hire incredible people, surround yourself with the best of the best and that will give you the best chance to build an epic company and don't give up. Focus on making a company that is healthy and happy and moving forward always.

We say this all the time at Y Combinator, startups are hard. The books written about startups talk about how hard they are. Well, there's no easy decisions. It's hard, and it's all-consuming, and it's the most wonderful thing in the world

However, one of the constants of startups is that things will go wrong, things will go wrong with your startup, they always do

Write code, talk to users, that's what we did at Lala. We went back at our core product and made it better. You see this all the time, things go disastrously wrong at a startup and the founders get sad. And sadness leads to inaction, it leads to apathy, it leads to depression. Don't do that, don't get sad. Go. Do. Write code, talk to users, make your product better, always make forward progress.

I wanna encourage you to think about the kind of company you're building and why you're building it