I studied business for two years at a community college and switched my major to computer science for a semester before dropping out to learn on my own. I ultimately want to found a startup, but I want to work at a startup to gain experience first. How does someone young without experience or a degree go about getting a job at a startup? For example, if I cold-email founders of startups I love, how can I convince som…
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#22Hi, I am trying to get into a beta launch of a grocery delivery product (www.suncart.co) in Qatar and have not been able to find a technical cofounder over past 6 months. Got the product made from an outsourced company. Should i just go out and start the beta launch without a techie cofounder and keep the hunt going side by side ? What could be the best way forward.
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#23Lots of founders in the Valley will start things based on trends, and at that point it tends to be too late to be a first mover and be innovative. How can you be someone that lives in the future on the leading edge of technology?
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#24If I know I want to found a startup in x amount of time, what should I be doing in that time to prepare to be a founder? How do you turn yourself into the formidable founder that everyone in the startup world aspires to be?
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#25Company Context: A creative marketplace How can Company start working on ML models. We have lots of data, but we are not sure what to do with all that data. We feel pressured to start working around ML, should we try to go into ML?
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#26Context: No company just asking How feasible is it for someone to fly to SV for a week or two and raise money for a start up. How would you set up appointments?
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#27Does YC accept startup founders aged 18 or younger ?
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#28Which are the most common mistakes you have seen first time entrepreneurs and founders make?
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#29Hi, I am trying to get into a beta launch of a grocery delivery product (www.suncart.co) in Qatar and have not been able to find a technical cofounder over past 6 months. Got the product made from an outsourced company. Should i just go out and start the beta launch without a techie cofounder and keep the hunt going side by side ? What could be the best way forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6rWcHEyf4
Awesome. Thanks
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#30Hi, I am trying to get into a beta launch of a grocery delivery product (www.suncart.co) in Qatar and have not been able to find a technical cofounder over past 6 months. Got the product made from an outsourced company. Should i just go out and start the beta launch without a techie cofounder and keep the hunt going side by side ? What could be the best way forward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx6rWcHEyf4
Just a small follow-on, what if I give out equity to an outsourced company in the start - instead of initial engineers ? Being a non-techie, managing techies can be difficult