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Can you provide any tips on how you reached out to other alum in preparation (you said you prepared with AlphaFlow and Snapdocs for example). Also, are you all
by sontek 9y ago
Can you provide any tips on how you reached out to other alum in preparation (you said you prepared with AlphaFlow and Snapdocs for example).
Also, are you allowed to share any of the questions you had that you found surprising?
- jaymeh13 9y agoSure. We simply emailed other YC founders asking if they had advice on the interview process. The questions are no secret. It's really only 3 questions: 1. what are you working on. 2. How do you grow. 3. How does this become a billion dollar company. Articulating the problem, how it scales and is defensible is key. Here are a few links we used - http://henrikzillmer.com/dos-and-donts-at-the-y-combinator-interview http://henrikzillmer.com/dos-and-donts-at-the-y-combinator-i... - http://blog.trak.io/ycombinator-our-interview-experience-after-flying-5351-miles-for-10-minutes/ http://blog.trak.io/ycombinator-our-interview-experience-aft... - https://medium.com/@octal/maximizing-your-chances-of-getting-into-y-combinator-summer-2014-b0a75aa7401f#.ysammbhed https://medium.com/@octal/maximizing-your-chances-of-getting... - https://medium.com/startup-lesson-learned/we-just-interviewed-at-ycombinator-heres-the-full-transcript-187312cd2cf5#.2o9l3aimh https://medium.com/startup-lesson-learned/we-just-interviewe...