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Michael Seibel - Building Product

Y Combinator · 1.1M views · 2018-09-05 · 59:06

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Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel lectures at Startup School on building a product people want: identifying the problem, the customer, an MVP and which customers to pursue first.

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HN commenters point to it as practical YC advice on iterating on a product and talking to users.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2022–2024

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benanthoney24 · 2024-05 · Recommendation

Watched this lecture by Michael Seibel to YC in 2018 and thought it was useful. [VIDEO] Thought it could be helpful to keep other founders accountable to build their mvp quickly and get it in front of customers.

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bolt7469 · 2022-07 · Recommendation

The classic YC advice is "make something people want." This video dives into how that looks in practice: [VIDEO] The guiding principle is simple, but in practice it can be hard and complex.

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jaxr · 2022-06 · Recommendation

I don't think you hit product market fit, though. It should be pretty obvious. If you had, and the market was as big as you say, then people would be flocking in just by word of mouth. I would suggest to iterate on product, talk to your users, get some good metrics on usage, etc. There's great content about that at the YC YouTube channel. [VIDEO] [LINK] [LINK]

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