This Week at YC: Getting Your First Customers

Happy new year!

January 3, 2023

🤝 Why founders should be doing sales early on

How do you get your first customers? YC Group Partner & former Head of Growth at Airbnb, Gustaf Alströmer, gives tactical advice to answer this question for all kinds of startups— B2B or B2C.


👩🏽‍💻 Life at a Series A startup

Curious about what it's like to work at a Series A startup? Join us on January 31st for an AMA with our Series A founders on Zoom — come with questions!

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

inBuild

Workflow automation for construction finances
San Francisco, California

Frigade

Open source platform for mobile product onboarding
San Francisco, California

Chatsonic

Like ChatGPT but with real-time data, images & voice search
San Francisco, California

Firstbase Agent

Payroll tax registration & ongoing compliance for startups
New York, New York
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
From a volunteer photographer at Startup School to YC President & CEO 15 years later. Welcome home, Garry!
Twitter
A solo startup founder's review of YC
Business Insider
Digitizing the construction sector, Tenderd helps companies rent, track equipment
YourStory

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. My Youtube earnings (brickexperimentchannel.wordpress.com)
  2. Conversation skills essentials (tynan.com)
  3. Why not Mars? (idlewords.com)
  4. Draw SVG rope using JavaScript (muffinman.io)
  5. Dinner for one: A little-known British comedy famous in Germany (historyhit.com)
  6. Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them? 
  7. Stone tablet shows Babylonians able to approximate √2 with 99.9999% accuracy (twitter.com/tivadardanka)
  8. How Southwest Airlines melted down (wsj.com)
  9. Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround (tedgioia.substack.com)
  10. Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job (stevenbuccini.com)
Read more on Hacker News

👩🏼‍🚀 Jobs at YC startups

Early stage to later stage, these startups are hiring now

Account Manager

Athelas (YC S16)
#1 Remote Patient Monitoring Platform

Remote • $55k - $65k

Staff Product Designer

Complete (YC W22)
The complete way to do compensation

San Francisco, CA • $130k - $200k • 0.50% - 1.50%

Founding Software Engineer

PermitFlow (YC W22)
TurboTax for construction permitting

Remote • $150k - $170k

Founding Software Engineer (Web Frontend)

Snippyly (YC W22)
APIs to make your app multiplayer, just like Figma

San Francisco, CA / Remote • $70k - $130k • 0.50% - 1.00%
Browse more open roles

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Recall.ai (YC W20)
$2.7M Seed
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Recall.ai helps companies make the most of virtual meeting data
Aerones (YC W18)
$38.9M Series A
Riga, Latvia

TechCrunch: Clean energy: Scrubbing wind turbines with robots nets Aerones $39M
Poly (YC S22)
$3.9M Seed
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Poly uses AI to generate art assets
LunaJoy (YC W22)
$2.4M Seed
St. Petersburg, Florida

Axios: St. Pete women's mental health company LunaJoy closes big seed round
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