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#52If you're making a marketplace app, what are the most common methods for overcoming the chicken-and-egg problem in the very beginning? For example, I think Airbnb did door-to-door in the early days.
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#53Hi Sam. Big fan of the yCombinator team, philosophy, and all the great work you all do!
I'm working in a B2B startup as the sole founder where I'm developing software to help agile software engineering companies capture and document their R&D work for government R&D Tax Credit purposes.
I've been iterating through various prototypes using the MEAN stack attempting to make the product that my B2B clients can't live without. I'm currently focusing on Canadian companies (who claim SR&ED) and am constantly juggling sales and engineering, which makes things go slower than ideal. I'm having a little trouble finding a technical cofounder because this startup is so niche and focused (for now) and the product is still in the experimental phase.
My question: I'm the sole founder and dream of having cofounders to help drive this forward with me. So, right now I'm not sure if my primary focus should be on building the cofounding team, or if I should remain completely focused on proving this out on a smaller-scale by building a scrappy prototype that proves this concept is viable before building the cofounding team?
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#54As a b2b company, how do you get sales outside of your network? What resources can you recommend to setup a process that will get you to your first 20ish customers?
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#55When founding a startup, is being a college student an advantage or a disadvantage. Does it matter at all?
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#56Sam - How can a student with no technical background go start a startup ? For e.g. - Evan Spiegel from Snap didn't have a programming background neither did Brian Chesky from AirBnB.
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#57Why do you think crowdfunding for startups hasn't kicked off as well as hoped? What sort pitfalls have startups in the space encountered that you know about? Thanks!
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#58What do you think is the best way to create impact/maximise potential impact on the world for a high school student developer? Elon Musk named a few things he thinks would be world changing in 10-20 years from now? What do you think high school students should be working on right now?
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#59Hello Sam, With VR/AR on the rise in the last couple of years, how do you think it is going to impact the startup community and in your opinion, what industry is going to get impacted the most in the next 10-20 years? Jamal
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#60How do you know if you're technical enough to build great products?