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YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

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Re: YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

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$1000 - $1200 per person per month? I know some consultants who can’t find health insurance that cheap. Are those high deductible plans?

The pre-ACA rate was $250/month for one working person. ACA plus inflation doubled that to $500/month, which is out of the reach of flyover country blue-collar wages. For planning purposes, use $500-$1,200/month for a young single person now. Historically it goes up around 20% per year, so I'm sure HN readers can do the Rule of 72 in their heads and realize where this is going.

This is false.

Health insurance premiums for HDHP should be around $500 at most for a young person in the highest cost of living areas of the US.

As a reference, these are the monthly premiums in NJ:

https://www.state.nj.us/dobi/division_insurance/ihcseh/ihcra...

Re: YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

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YC is always doing a good job in educating people on startup things, and they truly inspire a whole generation of founders, including myself. But still, most advices we could find online are too high level, too abstract, too philosophical. Yeah there’s a need for this type of things. But as a person who is thinking to quit his/her job to start a company, they may need more actionable advices and data points, e.g., ho…

Always enjoy your perspective from the trenches!

Re: YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet

#93
post #45

YC is always doing a good job in educating people on startup things, and they truly inspire a whole generation of founders, including myself. But still, most advices we could find online are too high level, too abstract, too philosophical. Yeah there’s a need for this type of things. But as a person who is thinking to quit his/her job to start a company, they may need more actionable advices and data points, e.g., ho…

“Advice” not “advices”.
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