Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned

Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by ryanSrich on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @04:55PM (#7343487)

> you do need to have a working product, and traction and customers, etc.

The best advice I've read is that you need at least one of those things. And it needs to be done very well.

Dropbox is the traditional example. IIRC they had a ton of signups and traction before building their product.

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Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by ther1 on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @05:18PM (#7343618)

How did they have tons of signups before they had a product? Did they just have a "coming soon" (with these awesome features) landing page? Would that count as traction?

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Re:Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned by outericky on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @09:41PM (#7344896)

It's not traction, but it's significant interest.

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