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10/17/2022
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This Week at YC: 👀 An Inside Look at the Latest Evolution of YC
For the first time in over two years, YC was in person. We take a look at the latest evolution of the YC batch, featuring the founders of Summer 2022. View this email in your browser 👀 Big Changes at Y
10/10/2022
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This Week at YC: Introducing YC Deals 🛍️
Employees at YC companies can now leverage one of the major benefits previously only available to YC founders – YC Deals. View this email in your browser 🛍 Exclusive access to software deals for
10/3/2022
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This Week at YC: Growth Hacking To A Billion Dollar Marketplace
YC's Anu Hariharan sat down with the co-founder and CEO of Whatnot Grant LaFontaine to discuss their first five launches. View this email in your browser 📈 Growth Hacking To A Billion Dollar
9/26/2022
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This Week at YC: How YC is evolving to meet a changed market
YC's Michael Seibel clarifies some misconceptions about YC and shares his insights about its growth over the past decade. View this email in your browser 🎙 Hard Truths in the Game with Michael
9/19/2022
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This Week at YC: Advantages Of A First-Time Founder
Har, Michael and Brad discuss when it's advantageous to be a first time founder and when it pays to have experience. View this email in your browser 🐣 Advantages Of A First-Time Founder Can having
9/12/2022
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This Week at YC: Meet the Summer 2022 Batch
For this cohort, we received 19000 applications from founders around the world and funded 240. Here's what we saw in the S22 batch. View this email in your browser 🎓 Meet the YC Summer 2022 Batch
9/6/2022
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This Week at YC: How to Apply to Y Combinator
The application deadline for our Winter 2023 batch is in a week! Learn about the admissions process and what we look for when we read applications. View this email in your browser ✍🏽 How to Apply to Y
8/29/2022
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This Week at YC: Announcing YC’s next President and CEO
Welcome home, Garry Tan. View this email in your browser 🏠 Welcome Home, Garry Tan Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO. He is a visionary and
8/22/2022
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This Week at YC: First Five Hires with PostHog
PostHog's co-founder and CEO James Hawkins dives into the unique ways they found their earliest employees and the lessons learned along the way. View this email in your browser 🎥 Most Transparent
8/15/2022
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This Week at YC: What YC's Head of Admissions looks for in an application
Stephanie Simon is reviewing 20000+ startups for our next cohort, even in the middle of the downturn. Here's what she's looking for. View this email in your browser 📚 Learnings of a CEO: Wade
8/8/2022
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This Week at YC: Founder Fireside with Gusto's Tomer London
Learn about building for new verticals and the future of embedded finance, live on Twitter Spaces this Thursday with Tomer and YC's Anu Hariharan. View this email in your browser 🎙 Founder Fireside
8/1/2022
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This Week at YC: YC S22 Virtual Demo Day
Next month, YC will be hosting our 35th Demo Day live on Zoom, featuring founders from 30 countries and startups in every sector. View this email in your browser ⭐️ YC Summer 2022 Virtual Demo Day On
7/25/2022
18 : 14
This Week at YC: Important Lifestyle Habits for Successful Founders
What good habits are important to staying healthy as a founder? Dalton and Michael discuss the best approaches in this week's video. View this email in your browser 💪🏽 Important Lifestyle Habits
7/18/2022
18 : 4
This Week at YC: The First Five Hires At Gusto, The $10 Billion HR Disruptor
First Five is a new video series where growth stage companies look back on their first five hires, customers, and launches. View this email in your browser 5️⃣ The First Five Hires At Gusto, The $10
7/11/2022
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This Week at YC: The Top Ways Startups Waste Money
YC Group Partners discuss what startups waste money on — from marketing to hiring. Vanta and Zapier's disciplined approach to fundraising. View this email in your browser 💸 The Top Ways Startups
7/4/2022
19 : 34
🚀 Introducing Launch YC: The Launchpad for YC Startups
Introducing a new way to discover recently-backed YC startups and product updates from YC alum — Launch YC. View this email in your browser 🚀 Launch YC: The Launchpad for YC Startups This week, we
6/27/2022
18 : 4
This Week at YC: The Founders Building from a Bomb Shelter
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, the lives of Stacy Pavlyshyna and Roman Sevast changed from startup founders to survival coordinators. View this email in your browser 📺 The Founders
6/21/2022
18 : 4
This Week at YC: Job Searching During an Economic Downturn and Startup School Live
Given the recent economic downturn and resulting tech layoffs, we're hosting an event to help candidates better approach the job search. View this email in your browser ⭐ AMA with YC: Job searching
6/13/2022
18 : 4
⭐ YC is back in person!
Dalton and Michael announce the S22 batch will be in person, talk about trends among the most recent YC applicants, the economic downturn, and more. View this email in your browser ⭐ We have some news:
6/6/2022
18 : 4
This Week at YC: How Awesomic Scaled Amidst the Chaos of War
The founders of Awesomic on how they survived, relocated a team, and scaled their startup during the war in Ukraine. View this email in your browser 🌱 Scaling a Startup From a Bunker: Founders'