Y Combinator (YouTube) About failure 2020

The 5 things that kill startups after their seed rounds

Michael Seibel ran Y Combinator and has watched roughly 70 percent of companies that raise on demo day never find real product-market fit, so his list of what kills them is postmortem-grade and concrete. He names the quiet ones first: fake product-market fit and building the company (hiring, offices, process) before you have built a product people want. Treat it as a checklist to run against your own startup, not a set of rules.

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3 September 2020
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