22 Vital Startup Tips From Y Combinator | Houck's Newsletter

A startup canvas, its close cousins the business model canvas, and the lean canvas are intended to be lightweight tools to call out these risks early and encourage the team to tackle them up front. I much prefer the startup canvas to old‐style business plans, but I have also observed that many startup teams still spend too much time on the canvas a

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If you’re feeling stuck on your path to PMF, take 10 minutes and deeply think about these questions:

1. Is the problem you’re solving truly important and underserved ?


2. Is your solution Delta-4 better than the status quo?


3. Have you tried rethinking your ICP ? How truly painful is the pain you’re attempting to solve for them?


4. Have you tried rethinking you

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1. The Engineering Question Can you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? 2. The Timing Question Is now the right time to start your particular business? 3. The Monopoly Question Are you starting with a big share of a small market? 4. The People Question Do you have the right team? 5. The Distribution Question Do you have

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When you’re early on in company building you have a lot of uncertainty which you chip away at by learning and iterating.