Avoid These Tempting Startup Ideas

When you're starting out, it isn’t enough to just build a minimum viable product. You also need a minimum evolvable product - one that can adapt to the needs of those critical early customers. In this episode of Main Function, YC General Partner Ankit Gupta offers an update to th ... Show More

Stoke Space is racing to build the world's first fully reusable rockets that can launch, survive reentry, and fly again and again. In this episode of Hard Tech, YC’s Aaron Epstein sits down with Stoke Space co-founders Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman to find out why they chose to take ... Show More

2025 was the year AI stopped feeling chaotic and started feeling buildable. In this Lightcone episode, the YC partners break down the surprises of the year, from shifting model dominance to why the real opportunity is moving back to the application layer, and why the next wave of ... Show More

<p>Today, we'll kick off a series where Brian is going to test out a startup idea live. We begin the way every idea should begin - by figuring out why the thing will fail and building in systems to avoid that fate.</p><p>Brian touches on Thrust and Drag, The Goldfish Cleanse, Jou ... Show More

<p>No episódio desta semana, Ricardo compartilha um conceito que conheceu em um curso de Design Thinking que fez recentemente: O “Ebb and Flow of Ideation” ou “Maré Baixa e Alta da Geração de Idéias”.</p> <p>Dev Patnaik apresentou esse conceito direto e eficaz no Relatório de Me ... Show More

<p><strong>Dalton Caldwell</strong> is Managing Director and Group Partner at Y Combinator. Prior to YC, he was the co-founder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009) and the co-founder and CEO of <a target="_blank" href="http://app.net/">App.net</a>. During his time at YC ... Show More

How to present an idea so it makes sense to other people, and has the best possible chance to shine and stick.This week Helen and Sarah explore some different strategies for presenting ideas at work. Whether it's a small idea to improve a process or a big idea to do something dif ... Show More

If an idea sounds outrageous, don&apos;t dismiss it. The outrageousness of the idea is exactly what makes it creative.  

Are you a person who has ideas all the time? And you read all these books and articles that give you even more ideas? It’s great to be the idea guy, but you also want to be the implementation guy. Listen now to get Dan Lok’s advice on what to do when you have too many ideas… 

I sent out a tweet asking my followers: "what’s a startup idea that sounds great in theory but would be a shitty business?” 1,600 likes and 700 responses later, I'm running some of your ideas through the gauntlet and walking you through how I analyze and form business ideas. Chec ... Show More

<p>Join hosts Walt Cooley and Matti McBride as they dive into Cooley’s recent presentation “Level-Up” given at the Amelicor Herd and Feed Management Conference in this episode of the <i>Progressive Dairy Podcast</i>. Learn how to level up technology on your operation, champion an ... Show More