How Founders Win at Fundraising, Sales, and Hiring

Summary

En este vídeo, Dalton y Michael de Y Combinator explican que la clave para triunfar en una startup es maximizar tu apalancamiento (leverage). En lugar de buscar atajos o depender de procesos externos como la creación de presentaciones de venta (decksmithing) o las relaciones públicas, los fundadores deben enfocarse en construir algo que aporte valor real. El mensaje central es que la capacidad de decir que no o de alejarse de una negociación es el indicador definitivo de que tienes poder, y que el éxito en áreas como fundraising, ventas y contratación proviene del trabajo previo hecho en el producto y el crecimiento, no de trucos de negociación.

Topics covered

• Definición de apalancamiento
• Fundraising vs. crecimiento

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Transcript excerpt

Remember the question I just asked was like what percentage of the deals do you chase versus what percent of the deals kind of come in your front door? And the answers I got only varied between 8020 chase and 9010 chase. [laughter] If you can invest that time in making your company something that investors will chase after versus decksmithing, you're you're playing into the odds versus playing out of the odds. Yeah. And again, I I think we're not supposed to be saying this. This is Dalton plus Michael, and today we're going to talk about a very simple and easy topic. How to win. >> That's it. Just win. >> Just win. How to win. One of the things that kind of triggered this is um at YC, we spent a lot of time talking about leverage. you're going into any type of situation understanding whether you have leverage or not. Yeah. It's the it's the question behind the question where we would get…