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Tactical steps YC startups have taken to jump through any one of the de-risking steps: https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/ https://codingvc.com/how-t
by dzink 10y ago
Tactical steps YC startups have taken to jump through any one of the de-risking steps: https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/ https://codingvc.com/how-to-de-risk-a-startup/ would be fantastic. Especially stories of creative jumps. You could do a poll of the YC network internally and have people share stories that then get mentioned per-problem or per-industry over time. A discussion underneath could allow others to share stories as well - beyond the YC network (that may allow you guys to spot interesting potential applicants and keep people engaged).
Generic advice is abundant and far less helpful. Individual founders could do episodes as well, but it's hard to be genuine and talk about the hard stuff when your startup's identity is affected - especially in front of customers and investors.
By focusing on a problem - the contributing founders can chose to get credit or stay anonymous with their answers. You could also do an episode on just cool "Tell us about a time when you've hacked a non-computer system." answers and it would be a great listen.
- lpolovets 10y agoAs the author of the linked post I'm a little biased, but I love this idea. I think anonymous stories about concrete things founders do to de-risk their ideas would be a really interesting subject, and potentially very useful.
- joshdotsmith 10y agoI would also really like to hear stories like this. Was so enthralled by Leo's post I ended up making a template for derisking: https://blog.codecorps.org/lower-your-startup-risk-with-this-template/ https://blog.codecorps.org/lower-your-startup-risk-with-this... These are learnings that doesn't just flit by me. They're not filler. They profoundly change the way I work precisely because of the depth and detail, along with their actionability. Applied learning is by far what I want to hear.