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Top Ways Startups Waste Money

Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss what startups waste money on—from marketing and sales to legal and hiring. Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 02:19 - Hiring lies 04:50 - Contractors 06:51 - Marketing spend 09:53 - Brand advertising 11:02 - Approach events like a startup founder 12:20 - PR 16:01 - Lawyers 20:22 - Advisors 24:39 - Devil's advocate Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Work at a startup: https://www.workatastartup.com/ #startups #money #tech #business

Harj Taggarhost
Jul 7, 202228mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
July 7, 2022
Duration
28m
Channel
Y Combinator
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Step inside the Group Partner Lounge to hear Y Combinator Group Partners Harj Taggar, Michael Seibel and Brad Flora discuss what startups waste money on—from marketing and sales to legal and hiring. Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) - 00:00 - Introduction 02:19 - Hiring lies 04:50 - Contractors 06:51 - Marketing spend 09:53 - Brand advertising 11:02 - Approach events like a startup founder 12:20 - PR 16:01 - Lawyers 20:22 - Advisors 24:39 - Devil's advocate Apply to Y Combinator: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ Work at a startup: https://www.workatastartup.com/ #startups #money #tech #business

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  • Harj Taggar

    host

    Y Combinator Group Partner and founder of Triplebyte.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Y Combinator, featuring Harj Taggar, Top Ways Startups Waste Money explores yC Partners Reveal Where Early-Stage Startups Most Commonly Waste Money The hosts say founders keep repeating the same spending mistakes, and almost every founder can look back at first-year expenses they could have trimmed.

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