🎉 We've survived the first month of Y Combinator
... my co-founder has tried to condense his thoughts on the programme, and what makes it special, in this brilliant blog post:
https://eric-landau.medium.com/what-i-learned-from-my-first-month-at-y-combinator-5b35fb9ebb7b
In a sense, a startup is like a manic-depressive. Before PMF (product-market fit) it is in the depressive stage, filled with existential angst over its place in the world, not sure if it should keep going on or not. After, it is manic, trying to productively focus its flailing energy and not harm itself in the process.
Your first goal as a startup is to go from being depressive to being manic.
Would be curious to hear what you guys' perspective is on that observation?
Sounds like you guys are learning fast.
There are many analogies when I think of YC and startup incubators. The latest being the infamous and insane Cheese Rolling race on Cooper's Hill, in Gloucester UK.