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Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
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Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#12Eat a sandwich.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#13Take a deep breath, pat yourself on the back, and prepare for round two: gaining traction.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#14Take founding team to dinner.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#15Eat a sandwich.
The pickles must be on the side.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#16I'd recommend giving yourself 1 extra week from the point you originally wanted to launch. Make sure everything is finished, and give yourself 1 week to actually use the product. Fix all the little things, and add the extra polish, things you really wish you had time to do before. But don't delay more than a week.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#17Drink a bottle of Cisco RED:
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#18break up with your girlfriend
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#19Take founding team to dinner.
Further: do this dinner at a cheap, stable, unpretentious place.
Come grand success or crushing failure, this will become the spot for founders' reunion dinners in the years or decades to come.
Re: Ask YC: What is the last task one should do before launching a startup?
#20Have kids :D
Well, you're just about to give birth to one! Can you handle two?