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In conversation with Mauro Battellini, Startup PR Dude at Black Unicorn PR.

Q&A With Mauro Battellini, Startup PR Dude at Black Unicorn PR

One of the (many) hard things about doing a startup is figuring out what that MVP should be. You are trading off between presenting something that is “good” enough that it gets people excited to use (or invest in) you and getting something done fast. In this article, we explore how we wrestled with this trade-off. Specifically, we explore our decisions around how to use Singer to bootstrap our MVP. It is something we get tons of questions about, and it was hard for us to figure out ourselves!

Why and How We Used Singer to Bootstrap Our MVP

The month of May has been a fairly crazy one. It started out like any other, with me trying to come up with a decent, catchy name for my latest side project that still had an available domain name associated with it. Since it was a tech-related startup, I was considering top-level domains (TLDs) like .ai, .io, .co, and .com.

How A Week-Long Project Took Me To #2 On Product Hunt and The Front Page of Hacker News

Y Combinator shouldn’t need any presentation, but just in case, let me give a quick intro.   

The 10 Things I’ve Learned Attending Y Combinator Startup School 2020

<a href="http://www.ycombinator.com/" target="_blank">Y Combinator</a> is one of the world’s most renowned accelerators. Their slogan and main mantra is “Make something people want”. At first, this truism might seem like a… truism. Of course, you should make something people want if you want to build a sustainable company, else no one would use it.

Quantifying YC’s “Make something people want”

Social <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/skills" target="_blank">skills</a> are one of the most important determinants of success in life, especially for <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/startup" target="_blank">startup</a> founders.

How can founders improve their social skills?

This week was the first week of <a href="https://www.startupschool.org/" target="_blank">Startup School</a>, a 12-week course offered by Y Combinator. The goal behind the online course, according to its website is:

Thoughts on YC’s Startup School — Part 1

In <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/engineering" target="_blank">engineering</a>, <strong>we live and die by shipping</strong>. If we aren’t shipping code, we are either doing somebody else’s job (marketing, product, customer service, etc) or we are not doing anything. And if we’re doing someone else’s job, by definition we aren’t doing our job.

Fuck it, Ship it.

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