{"id":34308,"date":"2025-06-16T15:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=34308"},"modified":"2025-06-16T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:26:26","slug":"a-losers-bracket-guide-to-starting-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/a-losers-bracket-guide-to-starting-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"A Losers Bracket Guide to Starting Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stanford, YC and my Safety School Harvard is the winners bracket<\/div>\n
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Chapter 11 is Failing Forward<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s how to win from the losers bracket <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-1- Solo Founder a #LTMVP<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-2- five Way Proprietorship <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-3- ageism. YC only loves you sub 25<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-4- Self Study YC. Ace a theoretical exam based on YC entrepreneurial essays <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-6- talk to customers. <\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-7- cs183d<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-8- YC elites won\u2019t do cs 183d work, so you\u2019re in luck losers bracket<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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-9- a PhD might slide in, but entrepreneurship is pretty much just Chapter 9<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Stanford, YC and my Safety School Harvard is the winners bracket Ditto MIT A Student’s Guide to Startups paulgraham.com WordPress\u2019d THE WINNERS from my personal iPhone, 650-283-8008, number that Steve Jobs texted me on But my post is on the losers Bracket https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0 Chapter 11 is Failing Forward What They Will NEVER Teach You at Stanford Business […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}