As YC alumni and founder with experience working remotely — and given it appears likely, per YC, that the YC S20 summer batch will be 100% remote — would it be possible provide any suggestions for working remotely with YC as part of a YC batch?
(Already created a related “Ask HN” [1] - but please feel to reply (if you do) wherever makes sense to you.)
- make use of the office hours that YC provides. You can schedule these once you’ve been accepted. They’ve already been doing office hours by video.
- ask YC alumni for introductions to investors. The community has really pulled together to support the W20 batch that just graduated. They’re the first to do demo day remotely. I know some of the companies had no trouble raising substantial rounds fully remotely.
- one aspect of YC that works really well is meeting other founders serendipitously. I anticipate that YC will probably figure something out to enable this, but don’t be afraid to reach out to relevant alums asking to connect.
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As YC alumni and founder with experience working remotely — and given it appears likely, per YC, that the YC S20 summer batch will be 100% remote — would it be possible provide any suggestions for working remotely with YC as part of a YC batch?
(Already created a related “Ask HN” [1] - but please feel to reply (if you do) wherever makes sense to you.)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22750941
Yes I’d say:
- make use of the office hours that YC provides. You can schedule these once you’ve been accepted. They’ve already been doing office hours by video.
- ask YC alumni for introductions to investors. The community has really pulled together to support the W20 batch that just graduated. They’re the first to do demo day remotely. I know some of the companies had no trouble raising substantial rounds fully remotely.
- one aspect of YC that works really well is meeting other founders serendipitously. I anticipate that YC will probably figure something out to enable this, but don’t be afraid to reach out to relevant alums asking to connect.
Thanks for sharing — all good advice regardless of if YC ends up doing the next batch 100% remote or not.