nabiha_zahra

what is your definition of a superstar salesperson for an early-stage post product market fit startup? what differentiates the top 10% of salespeople from the rest?

what resources do you recommend to learn sales if you're young and inexperienced and want to begin your startup sales career?

Lots of founders in the Valley will start things based on trends, and at that point it tends to be too late to be a first mover and be innovative. How can you be someone that lives in the future on the leading edge of technology?

If I know I want to found a startup in x amount of time, what should I be doing in that time to prepare to be a founder? How do you turn yourself into the formidable founder that everyone in the startup world aspires to be?

I studied business for two years at a community college and switched my major to computer science for a semester before dropping out to learn on my own. I ultimately want to found a startup, but I want to work at a startup to gain experience first.

How does someone young without experience or a degree go about getting a job at a startup? For example, if I cold-email founders of startups I love, how can I convince someone to give me a chance versus the Stanford grads they're looking at? What about trying to work at companies like Uber or Airbnb that are far later stage?

What do you like to see when reading the answer to that? What are your indicators for success?

What do you look for/like to see in a solo founder application? What makes you believe that someone could be successful as a solo founder?

Let's say someone is a fresh college dropout and wants to focus on learning programming and start a startup, and apply to YC Summer 2017 in March. What advice do you have on how to go about that?

The application for YC has recently changed. You no longer ask the question about what is a person's greatest achievement, which was previously said to be the most telling question on the app. Where are you now getting that info on the new app?

How do you identify small but fast-growing markets?

Is it a good/bad idea to found a startup in a market that is no longer saturated but also has big players (such as social media?