<p><a href="https://twitter.com/craigcannon">Craig Cannon</a> is the Director of Marketing at Y Combinator. He usually hosts the YC podcast but is the guest on this episode about podcasting.<br><br><a href="https://twitter.com/nolimits" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Adora Cheung</a> is a Partner at YC.<br><br>You can find Adora on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/nolimits">@nolimits</a> and Craig at <a href="https://twitter.com/craigcannon" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@craigcannon</a>.<br><br>***<br><br><b>Topics<br><br></b>00:21 - Adora's intro<br><br>1:26 - Craig's intro<br><br>4:06 - Starting the YC podcast<br><br>5:21 - Podcast metrics<br><br>6:21 - Tips on creating a podcast<br><br>8:31 - Picking episode topics<br><br>9:21 - Order of operations for finding guests<br><br>10:51 - Preparing for interviews<br><br>14:11 - How to keep an episode engaging<br><br>16:26 - Analytics<br><br>18:51 - Gear<br><br>23:21 - Software<br><br>24:16 - Listening to your own voice<br><br>25:41 - Favorite interviews<br><br>26:41 - Most surprising things Craig's learned about startups on the podcast<br><br>29:21 - What has Craig learned from guests that he's put into practice?<br><br>32:01 - Non-consensus things about building startups <br><br>34:21 - If Craig had to start a podcast from scratch, how would he structure it?<br><br>37:01 - Clipping the show<br><br>42:21 - Monetizing podcasts<br><br>45:51 - Will podcasts become saturated?<br><br>46:21 - What's missing in the podcast world?<br><br>48:21 - Influential podcasters<br><br>52:11 - Adora's podcast picks<br><br>53:11 - Patrick Benders asks - What idea do you believe in that your social group would think is crazy?<br><br>58:11 - Zachary Canann asks - Please tell us about the time you most successfully hacked some (non-computer) system to your advantage.<br><br>1:00:11 - Being at YC, do Craig and Adora feel pressured to go start a company?<br><br>1:06:21 - When is an opportunity good enough to quit your current job?<b><br></b></p>

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COVID-19 has pushed many founders to attempt risky pivots with their business. Other founders are hoarding cash. And many of them are seeing VC money dry up. On today’s show, investors Sarah Downey and Phil Nadel advise four worried founders on how to keep their businesses afloat. The callers: Shannon Malkin Daniels, Encaptiv Krystin Hargrove, CoTripper Dan Brown, Up-Rite Storage Rack Chris Murphy, Brewella's

Recent college grads working in tech, Sade Ayinde, Victor Jones and Alston Clark, share their insights on thriving in a world where constant learning is necessary.

The truly entrepreneurial story of how Airbnb founders Brian Chesky & Joe Gebbia made over $30,000 dollars from politically themed cereal in the companies start up phase

A quick, low-resolution prototype, a Storyboard can help you visualize your concept from start to finish.

Ameer Brown is a Software Quality Engineer at Adobe. He talks about what it takes to be a successful engineer at Adobe. Outside of work Ameer also organizes parties. He also covers how that helped him take it to another level hosting parties in multiple cities. From being a journalism major, he suddenly left his job, flew to LA, and applied to General Assembly. Through the bootcamp’s Opportunity Fund, Ameer’s coding education was fully funded by Adobe until ultimately getting hired (and he didn’t even apply for it!)

For years, Pierre Laguerre worked as a truck driver. During those years he saw one of the biggest inefficiencies in the industry up-close: getting available drivers matched with trucks ready to get on the road. Barely a year after launch, his business, Fleeting, is growing fast. But he’ll have to convince the investors he has the technical savvy to make the company grow even faster. And he’ll need to tackle another problem: how to adapt to an industry transformed by COVID-19. Today’s investors are Maia Bittner, Elizabeth Yin, Sheel Mohnot, and Charles Hudson.

Setup, conflict, resolution. You know right away when you see an effective chart or graphic. It hits you with an immediate sense of its meaning and impact. But what actually makes it clearer, sharper, and more effective? In this video, Scott Berinato, author of “Good Charts” and “Good Charts Workbook”, walks through the three essential ingredients of any story--including those told with data. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review

The Eminem AR show http://bit.ly/qlearly399 http://bit.ly/qlearly400 Lyft drivers earn big tips after years of ride-hailing. http://bit.ly/qlearly401 TaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”. http://bit.ly/qlearly402 Netflix added more than seven million subscribers during Q1, and its shares are climbing — again. http://bit.ly/qlearly403 http://bit.ly/qlearly404 Elon Musk is giving more than $100 million to fund his tunnel startup, The Boring Company. http://bit.ly/qlearly405 http://bit.ly/qlearly406 T-Mobile owes the FCC $40 million for playing fake ringtones in unconnected calls. http://bit.ly/qlearly407 Coinbase is buying Earn.com for about $100 million in a deal that is mostly about one key hire. http://bit.ly/qlearly408 Adobe acquires voice interface platform Sayspring. http://bit.ly/qlearly409 Mixcloud, the audio streaming platform for long-form content, raises $11.5M from WndrCo. http://bit.ly/qlearly410 Song: Poldoore - Morning Glory

As a Stanford Biodesign Innovation Fellow, Kate Rosenbluth was captivated by the unmet need to treat hand tremors. She discovered that the site of deep brain stimulation was accessible through the peripheral nerves in the wrist, and teamed up with Scott Delp, director of the Stanford Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab, to found Cala Health, where she is now the chief scientific officer. The company’s wearable neuromodulation therapies merge neuroscience research with cutting-edge technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. Here, she presents a framework for “needs-based innovation,” and explores how she emphasized a needs-based approach in the context of Cala Health.

Popularized by David M. Kelley and Tim Brown of IDEO and Roger Martin of the Rotman School, design thinking has three major stages. As the complexity of the design process increases, a new hurdle arises: the acceptance of what we might call “the designed artifact” — whether product, user experience, strategy, or complex system — by stakeholders. Design thinking can help strategic and system innovators make the new worlds they’ve imagined come to pass. In fact, with very complex artifacts, the design of their “intervention” — their introduction and integration into the status quo — is even more critical to success than the design of the artifacts themselves. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review

Strategic management involves the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by an organization's top management on behalf of owners, based on consideration of resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in which the organization operates. A full set of strategy animations accompany the textbook: “Strategic Management: Concepts and Tools for Creating Real World Strategy” published by Wiley. For information on how to utilize these animations for academic use please reach out to Lise Johnson at Lise.Johnson@wiley.com. For information on how to utilize these animations for non-academic use please send an email to ols_dept@byu.edu

Launching a nationwide venture that redefines and simplifies how customers engage with their pharmacy

The Lean LaunchPad Ingredients

Sustainability challenges organizations to address the implications – and responses – in their own operations and supply chain, products/services/markets, and community responsibilities. This course exposes students to professionals and organizations who are actively working toward making their organizations and industries sustainable.

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Seth Godin is a bestselling author, teacher and speaker. His new book, This is Marketing is probably the first and last book you'll ever need to buy on marketing. Hope you enjoy this Behind the Brand look with Seth.

Adam Smith described self-interest and competition in a market economy as the "invisible hand" that guides the economy. This episode of the Economic Lowdown Podcast Series explains these concepts and their importance to our understanding of the economic system.

This case introduces students to decision making and illustrates the various areas of analysis that should be completed before making a decision. It is a fairly comprehensive introductory case so students student should have some familiarity with how to read financial statements, recognize problems and suggest possible solutions.

Predicting the path ahead has become nearly impossible, but we can speculate about the size and scale of the economic shock. Economic contagion is now spreading as fast as Covid-19 itself. Social distancing, intended to physically disrupt the spread, has severed the flow of goods and people, stalled economies, and is in the process of delivering a global recession. Predicting the path ahead has become nearly impossible, as multiple dimensions of the crisis are unprecedented and unknowable. Pressing questions include the path of the shock and recovery, whether economies will be able to return to their pre-shock output levels and growth rates, and whether there will be any structural legacy from the coronavirus crisis. This Explainer explores several scenarios to model the size and scale of the economic shock and the path ahead. Based on the HBR article by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Martin Reeves and Paul Swartz --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review

Government intervention is needed, but managers can take these steps right now. Caitlyn Collins, a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis, conducted interviews with mothers in four countries — the United States, Italy, Germany, and Sweden — who have jobs outside the home to better understand the pressures they felt. She found that American moms were by far the most stressed, primarily because of the lack of parental benefits offered by their employers and the government. In Europe, women told Collins they had more help, but at times cultural norms around their personal and professional roles had yet to catch up. Collins thinks companies can work to improve the situation but argues that the real solution is carefully designed government interventions that will help families at all income levels. She’s the author of the book Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving. --------------------------------------------------------------------- At Harvard Business Review, we believe in management. If the world’s organizations and institutions were run more effectively, if our leaders made better decisions, if people worked more productively, we believe that all of us — employees, bosses, customers, our families, and the people our businesses affect — would be better off. So we try to arm our readers with ideas that help them become smarter, more creative, and more courageous in their work. We enlist the foremost experts in a wide range of topics, including career planning, strategy, leadership, work-life balance, negotiations, innovation, and managing teams. Harvard Business Review empowers professionals around the world to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact. Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review

A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the guidance below will help most startups find their path to success.

A widely accepted definition of Community Based Participatory Research, or CBPR for short, is given by the Kellogg Community of Health Scholars Program as “a collaborative process that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.” Although health and social change in this definition can be expanded to any community-based challenge with a solution that exists in the larger world of design. #### Related Methods [Sharing Research Stories](https://www.thedesignexchange.org/design_methods/83)

<![CDATA[<p>Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on.</p><p></p><p>In this lecture, Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch, covers the latter. What can you learn by talking to users that you can’t learn by looking at data? What questions should you ask? How can user interviews define or redefine your product goals?</p><p></p><p>From YC Startup Class - How to Start a Startup - Stanford CS183B</p><p></p><p>Lecture Transcript: <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/http://tech.genius.com/Emmett-shear-lecture-16-how-to-run-a-user-interview-annotated">tech.genius.com/Emmett-shear-lecture-16-how-to-run-a-user-interview-annotated</a></p><p></p><p>See the slides and readings at <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/">startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16/</a></p><p></p><p>Discuss this lecture: <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64045">startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64045</a></p><p>Click to view <a href="https://awesound.com/@ycombinator/emmett-shear-run-a-user-interview?auid=aDtLVNvF">show notes and transcript</a></p>]]>

<![CDATA[<p>Hosain Rahman, CEO and Founder of Jawbone, covers the design process for building hardware products users love.</p><p></p><p>Lecture Transcript: <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/http://tech.genius.com/Hosain-rahman-lecture-17-how-to-build-products-users-love-part-ii-annotated">tech.genius.com/Hosain-rahman-lecture-17-how-to-build-products-users-love-part-ii-annotated</a></p><p></p><p>See the readings at <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec17/">startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec17/</a></p><p></p><p>Discuss this lecture: <a href="https://awesound.com/click-auid/aDtLVNvF/https://startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64046">startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64046</a></p><p>Click to view <a href="https://awesound.com/@ycombinator/hosain-rahman-how-to-design-hardware-products?auid=aDtLVNvF">show notes and transcript</a></p>]]>

<p>We’re proud to announce this year’s Semifinalists for the 2019-2020 Penn Wharton Startup Challenge. Teams consist of students from The Wharton School, The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Startup Challenge and Showcase attracts the best and brightest entrepreneurial minds from across the Penn community as they compete for a chance to win $135,000 in cash and prizes.</p><p><br></p><ul><li><strong>BIO:</strong> SilkBlu Technologies LLC is a software innovation company aspiring to democratize information and empower companies in emerging markets through WiFi-enabled analytics.</li><li><strong>TEAM MEMBERS:&#160;</strong>ELIZA CULP(C’20); JOSEPH IWASYK (ENG’20); RANSFORD ANTWI (ENG’20); KYLER MINTAH (ENG’20), JOSEPH KIRAN</li><li><strong>ADDITIONAL LINKS:&#160;</strong><a href="https://www.silkblu.com/wifi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>WEBSITE</strong></a></li></ul><p><br></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>

The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Minor is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide the knowledge, skills and capability to successfully engage in entrepreneurship and innovation behaviors in new and existing organizations having varied purposes (economic and non-economic). Students will learn how to recognize opportunity/needs and link them to innovative approaches while bringing resources and people together in an organizational context to effect desired change. Students will learn about organizational contexts with both economic and non-economic purposes and have the opportunity to gain increasingly deep experience in entrepreneurship and innovation related to their major field of study.

It’s such an important message. Things that are instantly adored are usually just slight variations over existing products. We love them because they’re familiar. The most innovative products – the ones that truly change the world – are almost never understood at first, even by really smart people.

Opportunities in the cryptocurrency sector extend well beyond simply investing in Bitcoin or Ethereum, says Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan. He compares the digital currency landscape to the early days of mobile—a space poised to create an entirely new set of innovations and business models. For entrepreneurs looking to make a play in everything from social networking and banking to collectibles markets and real estate, he suggests, crypto’s underlying blockchain technology is worth investigating.

Traction is a strategic simulation game. Students develop their startup company in both pre and post revenue stages. Focusing on the team, funding, product development, business models, internal processes. This simulation combines academic concepts and practical experience. Professors discuss the concepts with the class and the players can see how the concepts integrate within the simulation. Although there is a free trial, there is a $25 per student cost.

Why Startups Are Not Small Versions of Large Companies

Instructional training videos from the UC Berkeley Haas Business School's Lean Launchpad class. Features faculty guidance in response to student examples.

Go to a good college. Be in the Olympics. Work in TV and become a pilot. These were the goals of a 14-year-old girl who grew up in a town tucked into the mountains just east of Los Angeles. That girl went on to compete in three Olympics, become a sports commentator, an airplane pilot and three-time Stanford graduate. Here’s how Bonny Simi, now the president of JetBlue Technology Ventures, did it all. View more clips and share your comments at http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=4663

<p>Hello and welcome back to <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/5IEYLip3eDppcOmy5DmphC?si=bjgo57TCQ-uFC38-iTy6HA">Equity</a>, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.</p><p><i><strong>Are you a regular Equity listener?</strong></i> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeE8Y2CpYM3IvuWiVAvdqNrC_fXvZARfcVUMIjycy_3gK_Vtw/viewform"><i><strong>Take our survey here</strong></i></a><i><strong>!  **_</strong></i><a href="https://forms.gle/QPU3sx3Hqv14Duuy9"><i><strong>https://forms.gle/QPU3sx3Hqv14Duuy9</strong></i></a><i><strong> _</strong>We talk about it on the show, and it's embedded below in case you don't want to click a link.**</i></p><p>From home once again this week, <a href="https://twitter.com/DannyCrichton">Danny</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/nmasc_">Natasha</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/alex">Alex</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/cgates123">Chris</a> got together to pull the show together. But unlike last week's episode (<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/08/is-it-better-to-be-a-private-or-public-company-right-now/">catch up here if you are behind</a>), this week's show features a game that actually worked. It's at the end, as you'll see.</p><p>But before that piece of the puzzle, there was a bunch of news to go over. We had to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/are-stable-saas-valuations-driven-by-logic-or-hope/">leave SaaS valuations</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/with-the-crv-backed-liftoff-list-competition-and-prize-student-entrepreneurs-get-rewarded/">the Liftoff List</a>, <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/as-recession-looms-brex-stockpiles-cash-cuts-credit">Brex</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/falconx-raises-17m-to-power-its-crypto-trading-service/">and FalconX</a> on the floor, but there was still so much good stuff to cover:</p><ul><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/slice-series-c/">Slice raised $43 million from KKR</a>, making us all rather hungry -- and curious. Where does Slice fit into the food-delivery market, and does its restaurant-friendly model give it enough room to grow revenue so that its new valuation makes sense?</li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/a-grubhub-uber-tie-up-would-remake-the-food-delivery-landscape/">The Uber Eats-Grubhub deal was an unavoidable topic this week</a>, given that it has the chance to remake the food delivery landscape. What room would be left in the market for Postmates? And would it pass regulatory scrutiny? We're curious.</li><li>Sticking to the on-demand theme, Instacart has <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/23/instacart-announces-new-covid-19-policies-and-plans-to-hire-250000-more-shoppers/">grown <i>bonkers-quick</i> in the last few months</a>, even <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/instacart-swings-to-first-profit-as-pandemic-fuels-surge-in-grocery-delivery">making some money in the process</a>. We're impressed.</li><li>It's not the only thing out there growing like hell -- Shopify is also putting up insane numbers, as reflected in its share price. TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/as-e-commerce-booms-during-the-pandemic-shopify-accelerates/">took a look back through its history the other day</a>.</li><li>The secondary markets <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/once-rivals-secondary-market-player-forge-is-acquiring-sharespost-in-a-160-million-cash-and-stock-deal/">saw some consolidation this week</a>, which brought back some fond memories.</li><li><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/13/quizlet-valued-at-1-billion-as-it-raises-millions-during-a-global-pandemic/">Quizlet raised $30 million at a $4 billion valuation</a>, causing some consternation amongst the hosts. And <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/12/trillions-are-at-stake-in-the-retirement-wars-and-vise-nets-14-5m-from-sequoia-to-manage-it/">Vise raised a more modest $14.5 million in a round that Danny covered</a>.</li></ul><p>Then we played our game. Please hold us to account. And if you have listened to the show for a while, take our survey! It's right after this next sentence.</p>

A few ideas that had a big impact on how I think about investing.