💥 The Fear That Could Be Holding Your Startup Back

The core secret to startup success isn't fundraising or growth hacking - it's solving your customers' biggest problems. But many founders are afraid to talk to customers to find out what those problems really are. What if that fear is holding your startup back?

In this video, YC Group Partners Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel dive into why it's so important to have the right conversations with customers, sooner than later.

📢 The Latest Startup School Talks Are Now Available to All

Startup School is a free online course where YC's Group Partners teach you to build the foundation of a successful company.

The most recent Startup School curriculum featured nearly a dozen livestreamed talks. The recordings of these talks were initially available only to Startup School students — but after those students told us how helpful the videos were for them, we decided to make them available to everyone.

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1. Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing | (https://old.reddit.com/)
2. Rarbg Is No More | (https://web.archive.org/)
3. Slide to Unlock | (https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/slide/)
4. Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant | (https://www.eff.org/)
5. JMAP – a modern email open standard | (https://jmap.io/)
6. I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me | (https://twitter.com/Molson_Hart/)
7. Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics | (https://mslivo.itch.io/setris)
8. India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces | (https://www.altnews.in/)
9. Hacking my “smart” toothbrush | (https://kuenzi.dev/toothbrush/)
10. Brute.Fail: Watch brute force attacks fail in real time | (https://brute.fail/)

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