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

Post by lotsofpulp » Sun, Nov 01, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

redis_mlc wrote: post #86

randmeerkat wrote: post #77

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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.

Post by hobby-coder-guy » Mon, Nov 02, 2020, 2:43 AM UTC

wenbin wrote: 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…