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80% of startups need the same advice, it can be scaled. Also, one of YC’s competitors is doing just fine scaling and literally charges founders to join a cohor
by O__________O 4y ago
80% of startups need the same advice, it can be scaled.
Also, one of YC’s competitors is doing just fine scaling and literally charges founders to join a cohort.
- gus_massa 4y agoIt's discussed in that article. I just found it "What I’ve learned from users" http://paulgraham.com/users.html http://paulgraham.com/users.html HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911195 (519 points | 17 days ago | 332 comments) They agree that startups need the same set of advices, and the benefit of the advisors is that they probably had seen the problem before. But they don't need the same advice at the same time, so the advisor must understand the current problem of the startup and the general situation of the startup and give personalized advice. It's not possible to give all of them the same advice at the same time like in a class.
- O__________O 4y agoAware they agree, pretty obvious in my opinion if you’ve actually worked with 1000s of startups. As it relates to mentoring, in my opinion, really just three core parts: - Accountability - Problem Solving - Networking/Intros All of these are addressable using software & system, classroom training for mentors, and auditable using voice to text systems similar to how Gong.io does it for sales teams. YC is a software company, they know it too. If they don’t change they won’t last next 10 years.