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  • How to Present to Investors

    August 2006, rev. April 2007, September 2010 In a few days it will be Demo Day, when the startups we funded this summer present to investors. Y Combinator funds startups twice a year, in January and June. Ten weeks later we invite all the investors we know to hear them present what they've built so far. Ten weeks is not much time. The average startup probably doesn't have much to show for itself a

    torulove
    torulove 2006/08/09
  • How to Do What You Love

    January 2006 To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adul

    torulove
    torulove 2006/01/21
    figuring out what you like to work on doesn't mean you get to work on it. That's a separate question.
  • Good and Bad Procrastination

    December 2005 The most impressive people I know are all terrible procrastinators. So could it be that procrastination isn't always bad? Most people who write about procrastination write about how to cure it. But this is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not

    torulove
    torulove 2006/01/04
    なにかをすることは、何かを先延ばしにすることだ。
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