By Larry Chiang
When you show up in Mountain View for YC interviews, you better have a landing page.
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Andrew Lee (@AndrewCLee8) |
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“anytime you insert #clipart into your website, you probably don’t need it.”- .@ycombinator #startupschool
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Kelsey Whelan (@kelseymwhelan) |
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‘Any time you’re tempted to use clip art on your landing page, it probably doesn’t need to be there.’ #startupschool ☺️
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For landing pages, people want to see transparency. I like
– 28sec – 38 SEC video embedded
– cell number call-to-action
– email address that is first name @startup
Not admin@duck9.com or support@duck9.com
– do a li’l lead gen is ok



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