The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder

This Week at YC

April 17, 2023

👩🏻‍🎓 The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder

If you're a student with big dreams of starting your own company, this video is for you. Dalton and Michael sit down to share the hard-won advice they wish they had known back in high school, and talk about the skills you need to learn now to set yourself up for success after graduation.

 

☀️ The (first-ever) YC Summer Conference - June 17, 2023

If you're a student (undergraduate or graduate) in the Bay Area this summer, join us for our YC Summer Conference at the YC office in Mountain View, CA. You'll meet YC founders, partners, and fellow students working across big tech and startups.

🚀 The Launchpad

Discover new YC companies and products

Argonaut

Simple, flexible deployments of apps & infra to your cloud
Sunnyvale, California

communion

Growth analytics dashboards & AI creative suite
New York, New York

Better Opinions

Prediction market for India
Gurugram, India

Scispot GLUE

Stitch your biotech R&D data
Kitchener, Ontario

Striga

Crypto-backed card issuing APIs
Tallinn, Estonia

Swifteam

Mobile device management with global zero touch deployment
Santa Clara, California

1build

Plaid for construction cost data
Miami, Florida
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🌎 YC Community

Highlights from our founders in the news
How Alexandr Wang Turned An Army of Clickworkers Into a $7.3B AI Unicorn
Forbes
Parker Conrad Takes the Pain
The Information
Democratising The Science Of Protein Design With Adaptyv Bio
Forbes
Planet A Foods launches its first sustainable chocolate line
Green Queen
How this startup CEO adapted to the pandemic, economic downturn and his own fatigue
Geekwire

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. De-Stressing Booking.com (alexcharlton.co)
  2. Why does a plastic-wrapped turkey sandwich cost $15 at the NYC airport? (hellgatenyc.com)
  3. The early days of Linux (lwn.net)
  4. Animated Drawings (fairanimateddrawings.com)
  5. Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages (izzy.co)
  6. Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station (floor796.com)
  7. Effective Spaced Repetition (borretti.me)
  8. I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days (davidmuller.github.io)
  9. Night of the living brain fog dead or how I hacked myself better via open source (decodebytes.substack.com)
  10. Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language (szopa.medium.com)
Read more on Hacker News

💸 Money Moves

The latest raises and rounds from YC companies
Ariglad (YC W23)
$1.3M Seed
San Francisco, California

Betakit: Ariglad helps HR teams communicate better, fulfill ticket systems
Noya (YC W21)
$11M Series A
San Francisco, California

TechCrunch: Noya pivots to embrace modular direct air capture, lands $11M Series A
Solarmente (YC S21)
€50m debt & equity
Barcelona, Spain

Sifted: SolarMente raises for subscription solar panel service
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