YC's essential startup advice
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YC's essential startup advice : YC Startup Library | Y Combinator

Early Stage Advice: Here is what we, at YC, consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups.

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The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice

  • Launch now
  • Build something people want
  • Do things that don't scale
  • Find the 90 / 10 solution
  • Find 10-100 customers who love your product
  • All startups are badly broken at some point
  • Write code - talk to users
  • "It’s not your money"
  • Growth is the result of a great product not the precursor
  • Don’t scale your team/product until you have built something people want
  • Valuation is not equal to success or even probability of success
  • Avoid long negotiated deals with big customers if you can
  • Avoid big company corporate development queries - they will only waste time
  • Avoid conferences unless they are the best way to get customers
  • Pre-product market fit - do things that don’t scale: remain small/nimble
  • Startups can only solve one problem well at any given time
  • Founder relationships matter more than you think
  • Sometimes you need to fire your customers (they might be killing you)
  • Ignore your competitors, you will more likely die of suicide than murder
  • Most companies don't die because they run out of money
  • Be nice! Or at least don’t be a jerk
  • Get sleep and exercise - take care of yourself

 

 

 

  • ์ง€๊ธˆ ๋‹น์žฅ ์ถœ์‹œํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ์„ธ์š”.
  • ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ์ผํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • 10%์˜ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์œผ๋กœ 90%์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ด๊ฒฐ์ฑ…์„ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š”.
  • ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” 10 - 100 ๋ช…์˜ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์ฐพ์œผ์„ธ์š”.
  • ๋ชจ๋“  ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์€ ์–ด๋Š ์‹œ์ ์—๋Š” ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ์žฅ ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ฝ”๋“œ๋ฅผ ์ž‘์„ฑํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž์™€ ๋Œ€ํ™”ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • "๋‹น์‹ ์˜ ๋ˆ์ด ์•„๋‹™๋‹ˆ๋‹ค". (VC ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์œผ๋ฉด ํˆฌ์ž์ž์˜ ์ด์ต์„ ์šฐ์„ ์‹œํ•˜๋Š” ์˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๊น๋‹ˆ๋‹ค)
  • ์„ฑ์žฅ์€ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์ด ์žˆ์€ ํ›„์— ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์ง€, ์„ฑ์žฅ์ด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด ์›ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์ „๊นŒ์ง€ ํŒ€/์ œํ’ˆ์„ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
  • ๊ธฐ์—… ๊ฐ€์น˜๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณต ๋˜๋Š” ์„ฑ๊ณต ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋™์ผํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ํฐ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค๊ณผ์˜ ์žฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ํ˜‘์ƒ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ๊ธฐ๋Šฅ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฌธ์˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งŒ ๋‚ญ๋น„ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ์–ป๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ์šฉ๋„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉด ์ปจํผ๋Ÿฐ์Šค๋ฅผ ํ”ผํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • ์ œํ’ˆ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ ํ•ฉ๋„ ์ด์ „์— ๊ทœ๋ชจ์— ์ƒ๊ด€์—†์ด ์ผํ•˜์„ธ์š”: ์ž‘๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋ฏผํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์œ ์ง€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”.
  • ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์€ ์ฃผ์–ด์ง„ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ํ•˜๋‚˜์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋งŒ ์ž˜ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์ฐฝ์—…์ž ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ค‘์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋•Œ๋•Œ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์„ ํ•ด๊ณ ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•  ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (๊ณ ๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•ด์น˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„ ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.)
  • ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฌด์‹œํ•˜์„ธ์š”. ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ์—…์€ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์ฃฝ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์ฃฝ์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ํฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋ˆ์ด ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ๋‚˜์„œ ์ฃฝ์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ์นœ์ ˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€ํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฉด ์ ์–ด๋„ ๋‚˜์œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋˜์ง€ ๋งˆ์„ธ์š”.
  • ์ˆ˜๋ฉด๊ณผ ์šด๋™์„ ์ทจํ•˜์„ธ์š”! ์ž์‹ ์„ ๋Œ๋ด์ฃผ์„ธ์š”.

 

 

 

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