I actually found YC advice on startups to work great in real life as well. Afaik YC is all for execution and thus write great material for getting things done.

I actually found YC advice on startups to work great in real life as well. Afaik YC is all for execution and thus write great material for getting things done. Best advice ever for me was the whole single metric thing - pick a metric, makes sure it goes up x-% every week.