Seven Key Takeaways from Our Journey Through Y Combinator’s #startup School
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Late last year, my team participated in the much talked-about Y Combinator Startup School on behalf of our startup, Affine Finance. We were assigned a great mentor (former C-level executive at Zynga and a startup advisor at multiple other prominent accelerators). It was a 10-week program, with weekly live sessions conducted both in-person and online (since I was close to YC’s Mountain View offices, I ended up attending most of the sessions in-person). The live sessions touched upon a broad range of topics — everything from legal matters to design and product development.YC had grouped the startups that were a part of the program into teams of 10–15 companies. In order to “graduate”, the teams were required to:1) Do weekly mentor office hours (a 2-hour group call with our mentor with all (...)
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