Jared Friedman - Advice for Hard-tech and Biotech Founders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2024
- YC Partner Jared Friedman covers hard-tech companies and why founders should consider starting one. He also covers a couple of the most common problems hard-tech companies face and how to solve them, with examples from seven YC companies.
You can find the lecture slides and transcript here: www.startupschool.org/videos/78
Find more Startup School and YC content at www.startupschool.org/library.
Chapters (Powered by bit.ly/chapterme-yc) -
00:00 - Introduction
00:36 - Outline
00:56 - What is a Hard Tech Company?
01:35 - Market vs Technical risk
02:06 - Why start a hard-tech company?
02:42 - Story about Boom
05:38 - Hard-tech and Biotech - Big part of YC
06:04 - Startup School
06:20 - How much of YC's advice applies to hard-tech founders?
07:05 - Two biggest problems specific to hard-tech
07:14 - Heavy MVP
07:58 - Boom - Do things that don't cost money
08:46 - Solute
08:47 - Solugen - Start small
09:35 - AirX - Launch a simplified version
10:22 - Notable Labs - Bootstrap with a service
10:45 - Astranis - Start with a proof of concept
11:33 - Ginkgo Bioworks - Sell it before you make it
12:24 - How do you prove people will want your product if it is not built yet?
12:49 - Pre Sales
13:27 - Letter of Intent (LOI)
14:20 - Advice about LOIs
14:43 - Fundraising for Hard-tech and Biotech companies
15:38 - A better fundraising plan
17:26 - Q&A
17:40 - AI companies
19:36 - Hard to get LOIs
20:53 - How do you prove that your idea is going to work?
22:15 - Sales
23:24 - Find founder and early employees for Hard-tech companies - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
Man, this should rather be an early lecture during school....it cleared Soooo many confusions I had for my startup
It's like attending a lecture at a top-tier university without any cost. Thanks for sharing your ideas.
The best course in YC. Thanks a lot! Really changed mindset
Love the way speaker handle the subject
Brilliant video, just what I needed. I'll now binge watch the rest of this startup school thingy.
Brilliant video lecture! This is exactly what I needed.
Great Lecture! Re letters of intent (LOI) it’s not necessarily the case that they’re not enforceable as a contract, though typically they are not. The court would look at the intent of the parties, both from the written instrument as well as their actions, so it’s not always the case that the magic words ‘LOI’ would prevent a court from ruling it as binding, when the snubbed party may try to enforce it later. So it is possible and even likely that legal counsel wouldn’t want the business folks executing an LOI without review and counseling.
this is a GOD SEND!
Update: Didn’t get into YC but raised $4m at x10 the evaluation I would’ve got if I did go through YC... so lesson learned
Really good advice. Most MVP advice is for apps that are pretty simple to develop and to mock-up.
Great advice Jared. I’m a biotech company executive with therapeutics and diagnostics and am applying for YC (I’ve had up to $4M in NIH and seed funding to this point, but need network to capital for series A raise) hopefully it works out, thanks for the insights
Was it hard to raise from NIH?
@@JonStenstrom It's GRANT from NIH for your proposal on certain subj.
How did it go?
what was the NIH process like?
Another great video from the YC folks!
Excellent! Thank you!
Thank you for this video, YC and Jared. God bless you guys. 😊
Insightful!
if I want to found a deep-tech startup, but I don't have the technical skills in the specific sector (for example biology or engineering), how do I do it? Do I have to find partners who have those skills?
whoa. well, this helps. thanks yc
A non binding offer to sell a product would make later filed patents on that product invalid. So don’t use them until after patents covering the product have been filed. That is true even if no potential customer signs such a contract.
Awesome!
I wish someone would share a list of hardtech investors
If any YC biotech startup founder here is looking for a shared laboratory with office space in Massachusetts, you may reach out to us at www.labshares.com/ and see if we can help you.
Wow
big big like👍👍
When hard tech companies raise a lot of money, to do the hard tech r&d, do they give away a lot of the company?
That part I don't fully understand. They would need to raise a lot of money early, does the valuation get set really high or are they giving away more of the colony than a usual tech startup?
They should also fund it personally as much as possible to still have control of the company. That's the price of going into hard tech, higher risk higher reward. Just see what happened to the original Tesla founders when they lost control of the company.
@@charlech Spoiler: they got kicked and now everyone thinks Elon is the founder
@@ASLUHLUHCE eh he is a founding partner. Their idea came to fruition and they both are stupid rich.
8:00 📖🖍️
10:48
Didn't this guy start Pied Piper?
I have a hard tech company (connected social fitness) and I just think this is mostly hot air. People pat you on the head and it makes for ok conversation with the smile and nod crowd but no one cares if you are trying to do a fundamental human need differently or you have built something life changing.
Also talk about this honestly. All examples are b2b or large tech. Talk about dilution for these raises. Talk about failure likelyhood and survivor bias
Tbh, "connected social fitness" doesn't sound very exciting or technically difficult. It sounds like an aerobics class or softball league.
@@snippletrap tell that to peloton. Products aren't always supposed to be exciting for everyone. They are supposed to solve a problem hopefully an intense one. People struggle with motivation around fitness. Making a frictionless home experience that provides human connection is game
changing
If you’re right, then you have a big advantage - few will compete with you. I wish you luck, and hope you prove the doubters wrong.
If you’re right, then you have a big advantage - few will compete with you. I wish you luck, and hope you prove the doubters wrong.
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lol
lmao
wow . ;)
The challenge is hardtech developed by minorities only command less then 1% of access to investment capital which is unfortunate,
You even stole Gene Wilder’s look.
GIVE ME MY MONEY
Thief
Guy is a walking stereotype. Every second sentence starts with "not everyone knows..."
And the word "SUPER" in every sentence...
Nothing new in this talk.
For u
Wow
is this the "wow" guy ?