Founder interviews

YouTube

Hardware and hard tech startups: lessons from Pebble's founder

Y Combinator October 12, 2018

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Founder interviews 9

MVP & prototyping 8

Bootstrapping 6

• Why raising money killed Pebble's frugality — twice
• Two crowdfunding moments founders consistently confuse
• Start selling before your product is ready — always

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SEO

YouTube

WordPress SEO basics: settings, plugins, and on-page optimisation

Ahrefs October 10, 2018

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SEO 9

• Short, keyword-based URLs consistently outrank longer alternatives in Google.
• Yoast SEO handles sitemaps, title tags, and meta descriptions without code.
• WordPress page hierarchy lets you nest service pages under subfolders cleanly.

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Culture building

YouTube

Building a team that stays: what great leaders actually do

Bill Gallagher October 10, 2018

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Culture building 9

Hiring & recruitment 7

Management 5

• Stop running the company — your job is finding people smarter than you.
• Ask employees their life dream before telling them yours.
• Retention follows when people believe the company serves their mission too.

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MVP & prototyping

YouTube

Technical founder advice: building teams, tech debt, and shipping fast

Y Combinator October 10, 2018

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MVP & prototyping 9

Hiring & recruitment 6

Processes & SOPs 5

• V1 code is throwaway — use the stack you know best
• Enterprise customers paying six figures trigger real engineering rigour
• Stop coding earlier; hiring compounds faster than writing features yourself

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Founder interviews

Podcast

Ben Horowitz on building through chaos with no recipe

Founders October 8, 2018

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 7

Hiring & recruitment 6

• Determination beats intelligence as the defining founder trait.
• Reframing 'what if we go bankrupt?' unlocked the pivot to Opsware.
• Spend zero time on past mistakes; all of it on what you can do now.

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