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When you go talk to users, don't (just) ask them what features they want. Ask them what problems they have. In the best case this will lead you to think of features they'll love but would never have thought to ask for. And expect to go through multiple cycles of ask-and-build.
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I’m begging you, never quit as a founder.
It’s 0 for longer than you’ll ever expect. No momentum. Soul-crushing doubts. Nobody seems to care.
Even when it looks like it’s working, it’s not. You keep trying new things. You don’t lose hope.
Then it snaps to 100.
You find the one thing that resonates. You wake up with more customers than you can handle. Everything is breaking. Momentum builds even when you stop pushing.
You didn’t get lucky. You just didn’t leave.
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We want to back the next $1B student founder.
Not from a pitch or LinkedIn, but IRL.
So we’re throwing the hackathon of the summer.
You’ll have 5 hours to ship something.
You’ll get credits, food, prizes, and maybe a first check.
If you’re in, let me know what you’d build.
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New from Stripe Economics: The Age of the Solopreneur
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The best predictor of success for tech companies, at every stage from during the YC batch to public company with billions in revenue, is the rate of shipping new stuff.
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I haven't read this for about 10 years, but I just looked at it after someone linked to it and I was surprised how many of these things are starting to happen. Still no next Steve Jobs yet though.
paulgraham.com/ambitious.htm…
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Many founders get stuck trying to find the perfect startup idea before they commit. But the perfect idea doesn't exist in the abstract. The only way to find what works is to pick one, go deep, and get feedback from real customers.
In this episode of Startup School, YC's @xuster breaks down how to choose what to build, "burn the other boats," and go deep enough to practically run your customer's business— and why that depth is what surfaces the better idea underneath.
00:59 — The "Perfect Idea" trap
02:42 — Why working on multiple ideas fails
03:21 — How to actually go deep
04:51 — Could you run your customer's business?
06:18 — Build at the edge of what AI can do
08:37 — Aim at the most ambitious version
09:33 — What happens when the idea fails
10:27 — Walk fast in one direction
Startup Community retweeted
We’ve released our full interview with @DarioAmodei
Watch here: youtu.be/x2VHFgyawPE?is=B6ul…
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The best marketing campaigns cost almost nothing.
Don't Uber to YC Demo Day. We've got you.
Here's our YC Demo Day bus route tomorrow:
> 7:00am: Leave Corgi Cafe (9 Claude Lane)
> 7:30-9am: The Landing -> Avalon Dogpatch -> YC (shuttle 🔁)
> 6 pm: Pick-up
We'll have free coffee and Thai Teas at each station for founders.
Good luck to all the P26 companies pitching!
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SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.
The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.
Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.
Startup Community retweeted
Lots to do together. Excited to be joining forces with @SpaceX to build useful AI.
SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities