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What founders use most, ranked by how many answers lean on it.

1. Two YC partners explain how products that looked small at launch grew into large markets, which reframes the worry that your... Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel, Y Combinator Video · ~14 min · Starting Up Simple Products That Became Big Companies Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel
2. A short, well told talk arguing success is never pure meritocracy, and showing how to find and ethically use the edges you... TED Video · 14 min · Starting Up Startups, Entrepreneurship and Unfair Advantages (TEDxSOAS) Hasan Kubba
3. The instinct to wait until you are perfectly ready, and to apologise for your starting point, is exactly what this talk names... TED Video · 13 min · Starting Up Teach girls bravery, not perfection Reshma Saujani
4. A clear explainer arguing that founder-market fit lives with the people who define and sell the product, and that outsiders can... Feel the Boot Video · ~18 min · Starting Up Founder/Market Fit: Your Startup's Early-Stage Advantage Cofounder Adam (Feel the Boot)
5. The clearest explanation of the access gap, backed by data from real pitch rooms: investors ask women prevention questions... TED Video · 16 min · Starting Up The Real Reason Female Entrepreneurs Get Less Funding Dana Kanze
6. Video · 48 min · Starting Up Clayton Christensen: Disruptive Innovation (Saïd Business School lecture) Clayton Christensen
7. Video · Starting Up Kunal Shah: Exploring Consumer Psychology (Return on India, Ep. 6) Kunal Shah
8. Video · Starting Up The Future is Default Global (with Angela Strange and Anish Acharya) Angela Strange and Anish Acharya
9. Video · ~20 min · Starting Up Delta 4 theory Kunal Shah
10. Video · Starting Up 2,851 Miles (regulatory capture and startups) Bill Gurley
11. Video · ~90 min video · Starting Up How to consistently go viral: Nikita Bier's playbook for consumer apps Nikita Bier
12. Video · 20 min watch · Starting Up Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: You Are Nothing Until You Launch Michael Seibel
13. A fast, watchable version of the giver/taker/matcher framework if you don't have time for the full book. It's a good gut-check... TED Video · Starting Up Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? Adam Grant
14. Video · 20 min · Starting Up How To Keep Your Users Y Combinator Startup School (YouTube)
15. Video · Starting Up Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss | Talks at Google Chris Voss
16. Two YC partners talk plainly about why founders who avoid rejection end up avoiding their customers altogether, and why the... Y Combinator Video · Starting Up Dalton & Michael: Successful founders are OK with rejection Y Combinator
17. Video · about 30 min · Starting Up The Cold Email Formula That Made Over $1,000,000 with Sam Parr Sam Parr
18. Video · Starting Up Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone, Macworld 2007 Apple / Macworld keynote
19. Duarte studies presentations for a living, and this talk (using the Jobs iPhone launch as one of her two case studies) shows... TED (TEDxEast) Video · Starting Up The secret structure of great talks TED (TEDxEast)
20. Video · Starting Up How many times should you Follow Up? Alex Berman
21. Video · Starting Up How To Cold Email Clients (WINNING Cold Email Templates) Alex Berman
22. Video · Starting Up How To Get Clients Through LinkedIn Cold Outreach Patrick Dang
23. Video · ~15 min · Starting Up How To Build A Lead List For Cold Email Alex Berman
24. Video · Starting Up 50+ Cold Email Subject Lines To Test (Free Download) Alex Berman

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