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Startups need to innovate to succeed. But not all innovation is made equal and reinventing some common best practices could actually hinder your company. In this episode, Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel discuss the common innovation pitfalls founders should avoid so they can better focus on their product and their customers. Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/DandM-apply Work at a Startup: https://yc.link/DandM-jobs Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Intro 00:13 - Innovation Economy 02:53 - Anti-Patterns 03:28 - Corporate Law 04:45 - Proving It Wrong 06:53 - Because It's Fun 08:30 - Business Models 09:52 - Being Unique 11:43 - Outro
"headline ripped from the news is people looking at the corporate structure of open AI Y and being like oh this is an interesting this is an instruction [Music] manual all right welcome to Dalton plus"
"Michael today we're going to talk about how do you avoid innovating on the wrong things so to set this up right we're in the Innovation economy oh definitely major major Innovation it's right here Inn..."
"let's start with the most common anti-patterns we see sure right like what is the one what what are the ones you see the most man what's what's offender number one of where people are trying to innova..."
"like well I think my theory is there's a lot of smart people again they want to inv in different ways and they'll look at something like corporate law and the existence of the Delaware SE Corp and be ..."
"one that you brought up though which I really love is the like I'm going to make this startup but I'm also going to disprove every piece of startup advice like I love this like I'm only willing to hel..."
"example something that's fun okay sure like nerd bait kind of stuff sure again I I this is my recollection recollection is that when I believe it was Asana when they started they wrote their own progr..."
"comes up a lot around Innovation is business model and pricing yep and I think this once again is not putting the customer first you know hey let's say you're selling Cloud compute right your customer..."
"I think that like um so much of this kind of Pop entrepreneur shark tanky advice right I actually think comes from a different place I think it actually comes from like weird branding and like I think..."