13 Insights From Y Combinator That Every Founder Needs to Know

This is what the number one accelerator in the world wants you to know when starting a company, and how you can immediately test and implement them.

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If you’re a startup founder, then you’ve most likely heard of Y Combinator— the number one tech accelerator in the world.

YC, as it’s more commonly called in the industry, knows exactly what they are doing when it comes to validating founders’ ideas, building something people want, and scaling them up to raise outside capital. Their methodologies and ideas have helped billion dollar companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, and Stripe.

There’s good and bad news.

The bad news is that getting into YC is harder than getting into Harvard, just over 300% harder. According to Hackernoon, the acceptance rate is just 1.5%.

(Sidenote, you can now Apply Early for YC S20)

The good news is that YC runs a free 8-week online program called Startup School. YC not only gives founders a huge variety of deals and benefits (including $5,000 in AWS credit), they also teach their fundamental insights and approaches to starting a great company.