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Does Your Startup Website Pass The First Impression Test? | Design Review
When someone visits your website you only have a few seconds to convince them it’s worth their time. So how do you do that? In this episode of Design Review, Aaron Epstein is joined by Zack Onisko, the former CEO of Dribbble, to review user submitted websites in under 10 seconds and give their first impression feedback. They’ll provide expert advice on how to leverage animation, improve UI and design the most effective messaging for potential customers.
If you would like to have your startup's website reviewed in a future episode of Design Review, please submit your info here: forms.gle/Yv7sCGpsi4PpAfRP9.
Thank you to these companies for volunteering:
YC
artisan.co/
www.bottomless.com/
www.cloudthread.io/
reason.ing/
www.kapacity.io/
www.rollstack.com/
Non YC
ampstem.com/
www.bertlabs.com/
*Keep in mind that some of the featured websites may be updated between the time we film and publish
Apply to Y Combinator: yc.link/DesignReview-apply
Work at a startup: yc.link/DesignReview-jobs
Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Coming Up
01:04 - Artisan AI
02:52 - Bottomless
06:07 - Cloudthread
09:21 - Integrated Reasoning
12:27 - Kapacity
14:21 - Rollstack
17:30 - Ampstem
19:12 - Bert Labs
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Lightcone: Consumer is back, What’s getting funded now, The vibes immaculate
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What's happening in startups right now and how can you get ahead of the curve? In this episode of the Lightcone podcast, we dive deep into the major trends we're seeing from the most recent batch of YC using data we've never shared publicly before. This is a glimpse into what might be the most exciting moment to be a startup founder ever. It's time to build. YC is accepting late applications fo...
When Should You Trust Your Gut?
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When you’re making important decisions as a founder - like what to build, or how it should work - should you spend lots of time gathering input from others or just trust your gut? The answer: it depends. It depends on who you are, what you’re building, and what you know. In this episode of Dalton Michael we talk more about this, and how to know when you should spend time validating and when to ...
Inside The Hard Tech Startups Turning Sci-Fi Into Reality
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YC has become a surprising force in the hard tech world, funding startups building physical products from satellites to rockets to electric planes. In this episode of Lightcone, we go behind the scenes to explore how YC advises founders on their ambitious startups. We also take a look at a number of YC's hard tech companies and how they got started with little time or money. Chapters (Powered b...
How to Survive the Crypto Boom & Bust Cycle
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Over the past decade crypto has been declared dead hundreds of times. But with the price of Bitcoin surging over the past few months it’s clear that there are still enormous opportunities in this space. And few people know that better than Chandan Lodha, the co-founder of CoinTracker (W18), a crypto asset management and tax filing platform. He and his team have navigated several boom and bust c...
How To Build Generative AI Models Like OpenAI's Sora
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If you read articles about companies like OpenAI and Anthropic training foundation models, it would be natural to assume that if you don’t have a billion dollars or the resources of a large company, you can’t train your own foundational models. But the opposite is true. In this episode of the Lightcone Podcast, we discuss the strategies to build a foundational model from scratch in less than 3 ...
Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors
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Why Founders Shouldn't Think Like Investors
The best AI founders in the world are moving here
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The best AI founders in the world are moving here
Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas
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Building Confidence In Yourself and Your Ideas
Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?
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Apple Vision Pro: Startup Platform Of The Future?
Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things)
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Stop Innovating (On The Wrong Things)
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today
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The Truth About Building AI Startups Today
Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?
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Should Your Startup Bootstrap or Raise Venture Capital?
Tom Blomfield: How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Startups
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Tom Blomfield: How I Created Two Billion-Dollar Fintech Startups
Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders?
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Do Technical Founders Need Business Co-Founders?
Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School
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Consumer Startup Metrics | Startup School
Techno Optimism, Explained
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Techno Optimism, Explained
B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School
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B2B Startup Metrics | Startup School
Critiquing Software Startup Websites with CEO of Glide
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Critiquing Software Startup Websites with CEO of Glide
How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills
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How To Build A Tech Startup With No Technical Skills
AI Startup Founders Debate the Creation of Artificial General Intelligence
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AI Startup Founders Debate the Creation of Artificial General Intelligence
AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story
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AI and the Future of Law: The 10 Year "Overnight" Success Story
How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer
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How To NOT Get Screwed As A Software Engineer
Design Tips to Convert More Customers | Design Review
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Design Tips to Convert More Customers | Design Review
Should You Quit Your Job At A Unicorn?
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Should You Quit Your Job At A Unicorn?
50 Founders Share Why They Applied To Y Combinator
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50 Founders Share Why They Applied To Y Combinator
Startup Experts Reveal Their Top Productivity Advice
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Startup Experts Reveal Their Top Productivity Advice
How I built a $275 million biotech company from nothing
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How I built a $275 million biotech company from nothing
40 AI Founders Discuss Current Artificial Intelligence Technology
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40 AI Founders Discuss Current Artificial Intelligence Technology
Why You Shouldn't Copy Your Tech Idols
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Why You Shouldn't Copy Your Tech Idols

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @RdLaster
    @RdLaster 9 годин тому

    Alright the last of us

  • @Affableluckyvlogs
    @Affableluckyvlogs 13 годин тому

    Great ❤

  • @aldente9419
    @aldente9419 17 годин тому

    High level up-speak

  • @kazuhiroseijuro1679
    @kazuhiroseijuro1679 18 годин тому

    I m a product designer and don't have a CTO yet. I m wondering whether, I should wait to get another co-founder before applying for the application? Will it help? Though, I m currently working on a demo/prototype and getting users.

  • @GTYVibe
    @GTYVibe День тому

    This is really practical advice ❤.

  • @HappyMathDad
    @HappyMathDad День тому

    Guys, I just played this video to my 11 year old boy. And he liked it. When you speak in a way that an 11 year old kid learns a life lesson. I think you should feel happy. I did have to explain FOMO.

  • @batesfaissa5656
    @batesfaissa5656 День тому

    What are the best ways that people who don’t have a tech background to learn technical skills? Many people recommend coding bootcamp but I want to know if that is truly the most effective option or should I try to teach myself?

  • @vraj9881
    @vraj9881 День тому

    I bet Michael at 19:09 wanna do "Sign of the Cross" gesture 😅🤣😂😂

  • @marianomontanez2095
    @marianomontanez2095 День тому

    i had a micro-managment flows implemented in a wide range of type of business

  • @TrendingOnEarth3
    @TrendingOnEarth3 День тому

    Any Indians

  • @FsimulatorX
    @FsimulatorX День тому

    What’s the title of the full video?

  • @CleverProgrammer
    @CleverProgrammer 2 дні тому

    Yo! I got a dev audience at @cleverprogrammer and we wanna be a part of YC haha! My co founder and I!

  • @NeoAppsAI
    @NeoAppsAI 2 дні тому

    Already applied s24 but haven’t heard back.

  • @danielbaulig
    @danielbaulig 2 дні тому

    We used to call it “golden handcuffs”. Almost 10 years at Facebook. “Retired” two years ago for a change of pace and to work on personal projects and open source.

  • @oyinwilliams
    @oyinwilliams 2 дні тому

    Well that was a much needed pitcher of ice-cold water on my FAANG obsession. Thanks!

  • @oyinwilliams
    @oyinwilliams 2 дні тому

    Please can we get transcripts for these videos?

  • @RubenBurdin
    @RubenBurdin 2 дні тому

    Love this!

  • @ihearditinadream
    @ihearditinadream 2 дні тому

    Am I going crazy or is this made by AI?

  • @george_davituri
    @george_davituri 2 дні тому

    pick 1️⃣ particular type of customer 👍🏻

  • @george_davituri
    @george_davituri 2 дні тому

    already on the way to create thing ☺️

  • @ayushman8482
    @ayushman8482 2 дні тому

    2024 attendance here😅

  • @tpwb5882
    @tpwb5882 2 дні тому

    Y combinator is like the large hydron collider of particles but just companies and people gets collided in YCs case. I am coming to get smashed good in there guys. Wait foe me.😅

  • @merorus6680
    @merorus6680 2 дні тому

    Man literally said "sell us your trademark secrets"

  • @FirroLP
    @FirroLP 2 дні тому

    Feels like right guy (who should be the expert) talks way less than left guy and instead it feels like left guy drives impressions and opinions. Why even bring in right guy if he only agrees and adds around 10% to the conversation?

  • @justberichofficial
    @justberichofficial 2 дні тому

    I have launched but I have 0 traction.

  • @manojnair4771
    @manojnair4771 3 дні тому

    Clear and absolutely important advice ❤❤

  • @tradfluteman
    @tradfluteman 3 дні тому

    Substituting fully-detailed physics simulations with AI simulations, for rocket design, seems likely to get us Titanic Subermisble II.

  • @jbulatao
    @jbulatao 3 дні тому

    Great idea! Glad to hear that we're bring manufacturing back.

  • @chinfanster
    @chinfanster 3 дні тому

    How do you know they open the emails?

  • @alexandrete835
    @alexandrete835 3 дні тому

    Excellent video, thanks for that !

  • @gursimransingh6806
    @gursimransingh6806 3 дні тому

    Hey Dalton, I have built 2 of these already one of is for Lawyers (Case Management designed to their needs) and one for Nursing/Care Homes (Invoicing solution). I plan to build one for Mediators. I do not know if it is the level of YC but still would love to have a YC partner as mentor. I do not have a great co founder yet so bit reluctant to apply. thanks

  • @josepinzon1515
    @josepinzon1515 3 дні тому

    Could you at least improve your your ux by providing very needed Google cloud credits, cause let's face it, Google won the ai race! Anything else is cheap talk

  • @JosePinzon-hb7cx
    @JosePinzon-hb7cx 3 дні тому

    You speak of instincts, interesting

  • @JosePinzon-hb7cx
    @JosePinzon-hb7cx 3 дні тому

    What if a self-taught product designer, who after 6-years of unemployment spent those 6 years crafting and discarding business ideas, business models, design theory, business ops, u name it, and who through some unknown miracle a ai tech company just happens to place an ad on Linked in the very day that this individual decides to look for work in 3 years, and then all of a suden he gets the unbelievable opportunity to become 1 of 10 prompt engineers, and OMG, he was the best and the other 9 get fired and he becomes sr prompt engineer and product QA out of the aether. Would such an individual be dumb enough to not have legally protected the ip from their baby Mussia? Would that sound like someone without a detailed roadmap. Let's say that Y Combinator once slighted said Mussia Baby, with good reason cause it was not this bomb last year, nor would it have become that bomb without skills learnt through hard work over the course of a year. Would they get accepted to YC and disclose any conflict of interests, and also disclose that they protected Mussia and that they would never inject any feature anywhere on Mussia that was a breach of trust to their previous miraculous emplyer? You know what WE mean?

  • @_engid
    @_engid 3 дні тому

    Make sure you didn't sign an NDA first!

    • @ericspecullaas2841
      @ericspecullaas2841 3 дні тому

      If I remember right, a law was passed making any NDA null and void.

    • @Fs3i
      @Fs3i 3 дні тому

      That was non-competes. Breaking NDAs is just exactly as no-no as it was before. (Read: it’s complicated. People do it all the time, but if you are really unlucky or stupid, it gets really expensive)

  • @OpenStatusHQ
    @OpenStatusHQ 3 дні тому

    Looks like you are talking about us 😂

  • @sheldon98c
    @sheldon98c 3 дні тому

    I was working as a technical founding members. Our initial launches were not great but I am working my butts off. We're 3 members. One member has not write a single line of code in the last 6 months and started doing freelance work. Now I feel, I have wasted so much my time and money. I feel left behind.

  • @CarlosEcheverriaOne
    @CarlosEcheverriaOne 3 дні тому

    Hey Dalton, if you want to see a great Developer Tool startup, please take a look at QCode, I applied to S24 on April 22. I'm excited to give you a demo any moment you want..!

  • @amslu
    @amslu 3 дні тому

    You want to steal corporate IP by pretending to fund stratups? Wow, it feels very ‚inspired’

    • @punita8148
      @punita8148 3 дні тому

      Read the word "inspired" again.. Tbh, every new startup is "inspired" by something pre-existing. Here, he is just giving direction for people to understand what they are looking for.

    • @ogopogoman4682
      @ogopogoman4682 3 дні тому

      Everyone has this unique idea that you have in your head, including the VCs. The one that gets funded and gets to success if the one who puts effort into it. Nobody cares about your genius idea. Everyone only cares if you are the genius who actually builds it.

  • @SerpkoBakotiinii
    @SerpkoBakotiinii 3 дні тому

    So, steal inner tools and sell it to another companies? It sounds like fun, but the company's lawyers won't let you do it.

  • @agorbmk
    @agorbmk 3 дні тому

    They could have at least put some flowers into those water jars....

  • @ReflectionOcean
    @ReflectionOcean 4 дні тому

    By YouSum Live 00:01:03 Tar pit ideas attract founders with false allure. 00:01:13 Tar pit ideas hinder quick pivots, causing failure. 00:03:50 Consumer ideas dominate startup applications for familiarity. 00:04:08 Consumer businesses target individual users, not companies. 00:06:40 High bar and timing challenges plague consumer startups. 00:08:48 Successful consumer products evoke user obsession and quality. 00:15:10 Tar pit ideas emotionally trap founders despite challenges. 00:16:01 Discovery startup ideas often overestimate market demand. 00:19:36 Tar pit ideas mislead founders into believing in unique solutions. 00:19:56 High percentage of founders apply with common ideas. 00:20:39 Web 3 offers exciting possibilities for young founders. 00:21:03 Theoretical concepts need practical implementation for success. 00:21:24 OpenSea's success was tangible, not just theoretical. 00:21:49 Startup ideas vary in supply and demand among founders. 00:25:00 Experienced individuals can excel in the startup world. 00:26:19 Pivoting towards high-demand, low-supply ideas leads to success. 00:27:01 Success lies in moving away from common, easy paths. 00:28:18 Recognizing supply and demand dynamics enhances success odds. By YouSum Live

  • @ReflectionOcean
    @ReflectionOcean 4 дні тому

    By YouSum Live 00:00:39 Startup hiring challenges discussed. 00:01:00 Advice on hiring during pre-product market fit. 00:02:12 Lies founders tell themselves about hiring. 00:03:37 Hiring specialists when not the primary need. 00:05:54 Importance of founder's unique skill set. 00:17:22 Over-hiring leads to higher burn rate. 00:17:48 Founders reminisce energizing early days. 00:18:00 Overhiring leads to burnout, toxic culture risks. 00:18:39 Avoid toxic hires to prevent hating work. 00:18:51 Post-product market fit: hire freely. Pre-product market fit: cautious. 00:19:08 Don't hire if unsure about product market fit. By YouSum Live

  • @RafayelGhasabyan
    @RafayelGhasabyan 4 дні тому

    Thank you for the insightful discussion and for sharing all of this with us. @ycombinator I am curious, what percentage of startups in the cohort were focused on robotics or hardware?

  • @alexk219
    @alexk219 4 дні тому

    I don’t ever comment on videos, but this was fantastic. Tons of lightbulb moments while watching this. Thank you

  • @j4k3br4k3
    @j4k3br4k3 4 дні тому

    A "technical" founder can likely do the "non-technical" roles it will just take the company twice as long to grow with 1 person doing both.

  • @DJS-mx8oz
    @DJS-mx8oz 4 дні тому

    We thank you, not the other way around;)

  • @pmgrabki
    @pmgrabki 4 дні тому

    No offence but Boom is not a very good example of a successful startup. Its an example of a startup that got good financing. They just burned a lot of money and 8 years later they are still developing. A lot of LOIs prove nothing when it turns out their plane is worth couple of Boeings. There is a reason why Concorde flew only couple of destinations, reason being cost of travel (10k per ticket from London to NY). Its like assumimg there is a huge market for 1 class tickets, there is not and 90% destinations you cant reach in 1 class. Your all acting out like they are next big thing and cant see the obvious, they are the next Theranos. Dont get me wrong its a greate idea but commercially its impossible to achive. Airline companies are on very thin margins and cutting cost on everything, so let's make smaller plane and 10x more expensive, but it is faster!!! Seems like a great idea said no one. I would rather give money to a company that is using new technologies to make a regular plane (e.g. carbon fiber cabin, hydrogen engines or modified engines so they can burn hydrogen, fly by wire, simplified design, planes made by 3d printing, this kind of stuff) so its lighter more efficient and costs half the money of a Boeing or Airbus. These old companies cant do that because they are old tech, huge and cant addapt that quickly to new conditions and new technologies.

  • @Fumbuzi
    @Fumbuzi 4 дні тому

    dude needed a staple

  • @dana-jr1ci
    @dana-jr1ci 5 днів тому

    See you guys soon 😘😘