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There's only so many hours in a day and running a startup will require most of them. So how do you use that time wisely and be more productive? In this episode of Office Hours, the Group Partners at Y Combinator share their favorite strategies to be more effective and reduce distractions at work. They'll discuss the benefits of maker/manager schedules in addition to the fake work and productivity fads that can do more harm than good. If you're going to build a big business, you'll learn it requires working smarter AND harder to win. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-apply Work at a startup: https://yc.link/OfficeHours-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Coming Up 00:48 - Tip 1: Focus on your customers 01:19 - Tip 2: Avoid shiny objects and focus on the core mission 02:26 - Tip 3: Write down and track your KPIs 04:48 - Tip 4: Avoid productivity fads 06:07 - Tip 5: Real work vs. fake work 08:23 - Tip 6: Divide your day up into two parts: Meetings and creative work 09:03 - Tip 7: Be intentional about time spend on social media 09:56 - Tip 8: Use social media to build relationships with customers 11:06 - Tip 9: Stack rank your priorities 12:59 - Tip 10: Identify what is NOT a priority 14:39 - Tip 11: Avoid multitasking 15:13 - Tip 12: Productivity tools doesn't substitute work 15:47 - Outro
"a lot of people think that they're great at multitasking and they are not I think the best Founders you'll see them be very picky with their time and sometimes it's the nonobvious things that end up b..."
"white combinator motto it's Mak something people want and I think as a startup founder there's a million things you could be focusing on there's a million things you can do to help help you focus on t..."
"it's very common for us to run into Founders looking for other things to focus on than their customers the shiny objects yeah fun things the fun things and also the accessible things right let's say y..."
"have worked for you or for Founders you've worked with to help you stay focused on that stuff and I think one is like just being explicit about it writing down like what are my priorities so it's what..."
"porn is like articles about how to be more productive that when you're reading them you feel productive because you are reading these great tips about how to be productive and a lot of them are pretty..."
"point is a subset of what we had sometimes we sometimes call fake work at YC fake work is one of the most dangerous things to fall into as a startup founder like as a startup founder basically there's..."
"yeah and so like when I was a technical founder um what I would do is I would take like uh the first chunk of my day like the morning I would basically be on a manager schedule and I'd have lots of me..."
"eat up your schedule is something that distracts a lot of us social media I think the danger with social media for a Founder is and believing in the kind of media personality of yourself right so if y..."
"is also the one reason to do social media and to tell your own story and to go direct is if for your business or product or service that's where your customers are and that's not everyone but it is en..."
"so the first one I thought about um actually came from one of our early board members who had that habit of always asking us to stack wrong things so you know we always had like many projects going on..."
"important middle model for time management is not what you decide to do it's what you decide to not do like effectively there's an infinite supply of people or things that want to occupy your time rig..."
"problem I think the best productivity tip is to not try to multitask I think a lot of people think that they're great at multitasking and they are not a lot of the folks I've seen be most productive a..."
"heard the most productive Founders or at least ones I think are the most productive Founders ever talk about like productivity in its own like they're not like oh what's the note taking app like oh ye..."
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