Zen of Y Combinator

This is an unofficial list of repeated sayings I have found in my studying of startups. This comes from reading, listening, watching, and working in a YC company.

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• Make something people want. [1, 2, 3]
• Talk to users. [4, 5]
• Do things that don’t scale. [6, 7]
• A small number of users that love your product is better than a lot of people that like your product. [4, 8, 9]
• Be careful with cofounders. [17, 18, 19, 20]
• Growth solves all problems. [4, 10]
• Solve your own problems. [2, 11]
• Release early and iterate. [8, 14, 15]
• You make what you measure. [8, 15]
• Be relentlessly resourceful. [13, 16]

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