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YC's Group Partners share tips on how to get things done

This Week at YC

October 10, 2023

Lots going on at YC right now! Here’s what’s been up:

  • YC is growing. Last week we announced Pete Koomen (co-founder of Optimizely) has become a Group Partner, and we welcomed Tyler Bosmeny (co-founder of Clever) and Nate Smith (co-founder of Lever) as Visiting Group Partners. Learn more about them here!
     
  • Tomorrow (October 11th) we’re hosting a co-founder matching event in San Francisco for aspiring GenAI founders to meet each other. The guest list is getting pretty full, but you can still request a spot here.
     
  • The deadline for applying (on time) for YC’s Winter 2024 batch is this Friday, October 13th.

Are you considering applying, but something is holding you back? I often think back to this video from Dalton. Particularly this bit:

“Certain people are luckier than others. But one way you can create luck and become luckier is to put yourself out there more. To create this luck, you need to take risks; you can systematically put yourself out there to be in situations where good things can happen to you.

On the flip side, if you avoid situations where you face rejection — like applying to YC — you’re reducing the surface area to get lucky.”

This isn’t something Dalton said as a feel-good thing for a video; I’ve heard him repeat this “creating luck” philosophy to founders many times over the years, and it’s a sound one. If you want to be lucky, you have to create opportunities for lucky things to happen. Apply here.

- Greg

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YC’s Group Partners share advice on getting things done

There's only so many hours in a day and running a startup will require most of them. But putting in a lot of time doesn't always mean getting a lot done.

For this episode of Office Hours, YC's Group Partners are talking about productivity — what works best for the founders they help, and, perhaps more importantly, what doesn’t work.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights and news from around YC
Singapore's Circular (W22) wants to keep devices out of the landfill
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Athelas (S16) and Commure merge to create a $6B healthcare infrastructure company
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"I sat down with [Athelas co-founder] Tanay Tandon to talk about what he built with Athelas and how the new merged Commure under Tanay’s leadership will move all of healthcare forward. [...]"

YC President Garry Tan on X (Twitter) 
Wright Electric (W17) targets 1000 Wh/Kg batteries for electric aircraft
CleanTechnica 
How Pump (S22) promises to slash your runaway cloud computing costs
Forbes
Stoke Space (W21) raises $100M Series B as it looks to reach orbit by 2025
TechCrunch

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent YC companies and product launches 
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W2024
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W2021
Automated sales & support through chat for SMBs.
W2022
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Making Hard Things Easy (jvns.ca)
    1104 points by hasheddan | 197 comments

  2. An interactive intro to CRDTs (jakelazaroff.com)
    912 points by jakelazaroff | 128 comments

  3. Where does my computer get the time from? (dotat.at)
    848 points by fanf2 | 249 comments

  4. Pythagorean Theorem found on clay tablet 1k years older than Pythagoras (2009) (link.springer.com)
    833 points by samaysharma | 236 comments

  5. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax” (www.thebignewsletter.com)
    736 points by PaulHoule | 625 comments

  6. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly (blog.apnic.net)
    626 points by skilled | 475 comments

  7. Paperless-ngx – Open source document management system (nerdyarticles.com)
    605 points by thunderbong | 179 comments

  8. Show HN: Classic Video Poker (lfgslots.com)
    576 points by appstorelottery | 217 comments

  9. Flappy Dird: Flappy Bird Implemented in MacOS Finder (eieio.games)
    550 points by eieio | 55 comments

  10. AMD may get across the CUDA moat (www.hpcwire.com)
    543 points by danzheng | 291 comments

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