All Categories - Michael Seibel
19 novembre 2019
This is a hopefully entertaining story about how I learned to not be an idiot CEO. We started...
28 septembre 2018
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of...
10 juillet 2018
The hardest conversation I have to have with a founder is when they’ve spent their 1-2 million...
20 mars 2018 ·
More often than not, when I talk to a talented technical person who’s thinking about becoming a...
28 septembre 2017 ·
When people ask me for tech career advice I find it helpful to lay out the three paths I’ve...
25 septembre 2017 ·
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to...
19 juillet 2017
A lot of people ask themselves this question. They often mull over one or more of the following...
6 février 2017
When meeting with founders for the first time I sometimes hear, “We’re a Series A company.”...
10 janvier 2017
When people discuss startups they tend to talk about inspiration and creativity. This leads...
10 janvier 2017
The best press advice I ever got was from Mike Arrington and M.G. Siegler while they were...
17 août 2016
When you’re just getting started, many startups will take every user they can get. They have a...
2 août 2016
Before Justin.tv grew into Twitch and Socialcam we spent years with a broken understanding of how...
19 juillet 2016
It is much easier to talk to an investor if they understand what your company does. As a founder...
5 juillet 2016
As an early stage investor I want to help startups succeed. Whether or not YC invests in the...
27 juin 2016
I often talk to founders who believe they’ve found product/market fit when they haven’t. This is...
1 avril 2016
Dear YC, My best friend and I started and ran a club in college, and it was a resounding success....
12 février 2016
I often talk to people who want to start startups in their late 20s and 30s, but can’t.
Some...
14 décembre 2015
Founders often ask how they should split equity with their co-founders. When I search the web on...
31 octobre 2015
I get asked for startup advice many times everyday from both YC companies and non-YC companies. I...