Video · 20 min video

When to Launch Your Startup and When to Wait

Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel, Brad Flora · Y Combinator Free Intermediate

When to Launch Your Startup and When to Wait

Three YC partners debate the honest nuance behind ship-fast advice, so you get the cases where waiting is defensible and the far more common cases where it is just fear. It keeps you from using the rare exceptions as an excuse to stall. Useful once you have internalized launch-fast and want to pressure-test your own reasons for delay.

  • Most reasons to delay a launch do not survive scrutiny
  • There are narrow exceptions, and they are narrower than you think
  • Default to launching, then justify any decision to wait
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The question it answers

  1. How often should an early-stage startup ship?

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