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Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School

Should You Start A Startup? | Startup School

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In this episode of Startup School, YC Group Partner Harj Taggar shares his advice on the types of people best suited to be startup founders and how to prepare to start a company in the future. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 00:48 - How to decide whether to be a startup founder. 02:42 - Resilience is the most important quality 03:35 - Founder of Benchling (S12) 05:11 - Startup resilience - Initial motivation isn't important 07:04 - As a curious founder ask "What do I have to lose"? 09:10 - Startup experience can improve your career opportunities 10:50 - Getting ready to start a startup in the future 12:52 - Best environment is working at a startup 14:28 - When to take the leap and start a company? 16:14 - Advice #startup #tech #entrepreneur Y Combinator Musicbed SyncID: MB013EDUBCAZ4PG

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0:01 - 0:50
0:48 duration163 words

Introduction

"foreign [Music] I'm Hodge tiger one of the group Partners at y  combinator today I'm going to talk about whether you should start a startup because YC invests  in startups so early I've spent a lot of..."

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0:50 - 2:45
1:55 duration432 words

How to decide whether to be a startup founder.

"out if you're the kind of person who should become  a startup founder or not I really wish there were simple test you could take that would give you a  clear and correct answer to that question I've n..."

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2:45 - 3:39
0:54 duration166 words

Resilience is the most important quality

"your early users and that's the quality I think  is most important for startup Founders to have resilient people are suited to startups and should  definitely become Founders but how do you know if yo..."

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3:39 - 5:15
1:35 duration281 words

Founder of Benchling (S12)

"benjling in 2012. benjling is now worth over  six billion dollars and Sagi has grown into a formidable founder and CEO but I remember when  we first interviewed him and his co-founder Corey they were ..."

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5:15 - 7:05
1:50 duration355 words

Startup resilience - Initial motivation isn't important

"who seemed equally talented at first when we  first funded their companies but turned out not to have the same amount of resilience as these  Founders did I've thought a lot about how to tell the diff..."

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7:05 - 9:14
2:09 duration440 words

As a curious founder ask "What do I have to lose"?

"introspecting too much on if you'll make a good  startup founder I'll offer some practical advice if you are curious about what it'd be like to  start a company start by asking yourself what do I have..."

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9:14 - 10:55
1:40 duration303 words

Startup experience can improve your career opportunities

"succeed my second startup triple bite use software  to help companies identify and hire great people I work with hundreds of employers as they search  for the best talent and I found that many of them..."

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10:55 - 12:53
1:58 duration404 words

Getting ready to start a startup in the future

"you're not ready to do one right now how can you  best prepare yourself to start one in the future to actually start a company you'll want two things  an idea and a co-founder now sometimes an idea an..."

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12:53 - 14:31
1:38 duration330 words

Best environment is working at a startup

"start a company one day it's best to choose an  environment where you will be around many people who might someday be your co-founder I think the  best environment for this is working at a startup you..."

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14:31 - 16:18
1:46 duration361 words

When to take the leap and start a company?

"how do you know when it's time to take the leap  and quit your job to start a company while it'd be great if one of your side projects started  getting explosive traction and made the decision easy fo..."

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16:18 - 17:06
0:47 duration139 words

Advice

"too much about your initial motivations or reasons  to start a company those can change over time simply being curious about the experience  of starting a startup is enough to get going think about th..."