The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School @ycombinator

Y Combinator | The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School @ycombinator | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
Kat Mañalac is the head of YC's Outreach team and advises early stage founders on their launches during the YC batch. She shares the multitude of ways to launch a product and how to get attention for them. Her talk provides tangible strategies and examples of startup launches and will change the way you think about launching.

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Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Launching Your Startup
01:28 - When Should I Launch My Startup?
03:42 - One Sentence Pitch
05:19 - How to Create a Short Memorable Description
09:17 - When is the X for Y Construction Not Too Cliche?
12:05 - Types of Launches
20:43 - Summary

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