2. Unless you have a good reason to incorporate now, just get a doing-business-as license (or Massachusetts Business Certificate, or whatever your state calls it). If you get into YC later, they'll want you to incorporate using their documents.

3. Track all your expenses. Startup expenses can help your taxes even years later, whenever you start getting revenue. (I just learned this last week.)

4. Tie your success to the success of existing YC companies. I've integrated with disqus, adpinion, snipshot and clickpass. You show them off; they show you off.

5. Talk about your project with your family. As far as possible, make it something that includes them rather than competing with them. I sat down with two of my kids and showed them how I write web pages. My 10-year-old wants to do the same thing when she gets older. Amusingly, the page I made sitting with them ended up in production, which is OK.

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