"nope not live almost live now we're live okay my name is Eric makovski I'm the startup school course facilitator welcome to another live Q&A we're joined today by dalton i how's it going I'm Dalton Ca..."

"recommend just like sticking with that like there's no harm plus like the main goal is to find is to get the product market fit like yes spend time on that part and not on the like corporate shell gam..."

"unaligned and there's a structural problem to getting to that next stage like say you've got a couple customers some early users I just see a lot of times with those founders whose primary modality is..."

"case you know the numbers aren't in here on this question but I usually encourage folks to try to make metrics based decisions about if they're like should I do a or b you you look at your your number..."

"of the spectrum which they pivot constantly but they never actually make anything they just talk been with a monoid yeah what the night pivot is and we talked about it yeah and then there's gathered i..."

"Eric don't you wish you didn't have to work as hard and you got more work done these are like leading questions yeah pretty much everyone you ask the coin will say - I'll say and so if you phrase this..."

"easier and less painful than say building rocket ships to Mars what are sort of the best tips for hard tech companies to avoid wasting kind of time and money to avoid like a pivot later down the road ..."

"the company because they would have died otherwise and so it would be very hard to bootstrap like what's tricky about certain startup ideas there's no amount of the idea being good can help you from f..."

"know about a library of case studies and the probably the best equivalent that is literally this it's startup school because I mean my talk I I'm not aware of there being other people that are talked ..."

"we're not looking for perfectly form startups here we're looking to find founders yeah and it's when it's very disjoint it's just hard to make sense of yeah what the deal is what about having two appl..."

"differentiation that to me is meaningless yeah but to the founder they're like no but no other dating hapless has had this hats feature this is a really big deal and you know that that's and if they l..."

"it's very context dependent and you sort of need to talk to them about it and depending on what terms or whether it was a convertible note or a safe there's different legal ramifications about whether..."

"here's a quick one from Natalie she asks for a b2c app what number of weekly active users will put me in a strong position to raise money on retention and retention yeah well the key spot a spot is ex..."

"recommendations try like there's all these things that we see and it's like people are treating this like get getting a YC interview is like a lottery ticket or it's like getting like like that there'..."

"and not you know you hack this isn't to get funded a couple more rapid-fire questions our idea is in a and the other industry so it's not in one of the dropdowns that we have is there anything specifi..."

"production or something yeah yeah I've got a question from Toto are at Nomad players about the coronavirus he's built a company that has in-person events as one of the primary things that they they do..."

"sell to but that I think we've seen pretty good success with yeah and that's I would not call it a service business I always just call that yeah but but to the other to the founded like yeah yeah at t..."