Ask YC: how much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61394

by donna • 19 years ago

10 3 19 years ago

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How much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?

- the pitch / presentation of your start-up - actually working on the start-up business - calling to date investor / due diligence to match up the investor

limeade• 19 years ago

0.7 days per week

matth• 19 years ago

Is this question directed towards founders who have already been through the YC process? I haven't been invited... at least, not yet. :)

I spend 99% of my time coding. I like YC because it lets me focus on what I'm good at now, and then coaches me through the business aspects of delivering a product later. The details holding me back from doing this on my own are exactly what YC offers mentoring through.

jamiequint• 19 years ago

Product First, Pitch Second

How can you worry about investors when you don't even have anything to show them? It seems most people (from my observation) do it this way..

1. get a demo done 2. raise money 3. continue working

Sometimes one of the co-founders may continue working during the raising money stage, but for the most part raising money seems to consume most of the company's time during that stage. Everything seems to happen more sequentially than concurrently.

Ask YC: how much time do you spend juggling to prepare your start-up?

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