This Week at YC: YC Founders Made These Fundraising Mistakes

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🎥 YC Founders Made These Fundraising Mistakes
In this week's episode of Rookie Mistakes, YC's Michael Seibel and Dalton Caldwell discuss common mistakes founders make when fundraising.

🧑🏽‍💻 Does co-founder matching work? It did for these three YC companies.
Read about how the founders of Seer, Sequin, and Kiwi Biosciences used YC's co-founder matching platform to complete their founding team.

Top Posts on Hacker News
Books that changed my career as a software engineer (julianogtz.github.io)
• Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money (stevenbuccini.com)
90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before (bbc.com)
Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful (dynomight.net)
Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs (reactionwheel.net)
Fingerprints can be hacked (kraken.com)

Jobs at YC Startups 
• Meet YC Founders Online at YC's Winter Job Expo on Thurs Dec 2nd
• Terra (YC W21) Is Hiring for Graduate Software Engineers in London
• Release (YC W20) Is Hiring – Senior Full Stack Back End Focused
• MindsDB (YC W20) Is Hiring for an Executive Assistant/Chief of Staff
• Emerge Tools (YC W21) is hiring an Android engineer – remote with company trips
• TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering

From the YC Community
How to get the most out of your investors - Brian Murray (Cabal, S21)
How we launch at Supabase - Ant Wilson, (Supabase, S20)
What Every Crypto Buyer Should Know About OpenSea, The King Of The NFT MarketOpenSea, W18

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