One thing I tell startups all the time is that the best way to grow is to make their product better.

The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.

It's really easy to get PR with no results & it actually feels like you're really actually cool, but in a year you'll still have nothing.

The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.