mygodisawesome
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Context:
We had our YC interview on Friday for Sendif.
It bombed.
If I could turn back the clock, I'd do these 3 things:
1) Say less.
When asked, "What is a better email?"
I blurted, "A better email is...conversion rate...drives sales...click rate...xyz...e-commerce...bla bla bla."
I wish I'd just said, "A better email drives more revenue than a bad one."
2) Connect every dot back to "Why us."
When asked about LensAdvizor [a Shopify app we built in 2020], I regaled them with a 20-second novella.
I wish I'd just said: "We solved a problem for Rocket Eyewear [my store], turned it into a profitable app with 800 users, and now we're doing it again with Sendif."
3) Empathise.
These poor guys have to cram hundreds of interviews into back-to-back 10-minute sprints.
They wanna learn more about you.
But they don't have time.
So be crisp.
Help them help you.
Quickly!
And don't get butthurt.
P.S. If anyone else got an interview but didn't get in, please send me a DM!
Would love to set up a group with you guys so we can connect and work our butts off on our startups together (Build in Public style, perhaps?) over the summer.
P.P.S Sendif does AI-generated emails for e-commerce, 10x faster and cheaper than an agency.
We had our YC interview on Friday for Sendif.
It bombed.
If I could turn back the clock, I'd do these 3 things:
1) Say less.
When asked, "What is a better email?"
I blurted, "A better email is...conversion rate...drives sales...click rate...xyz...e-commerce...bla bla bla."
I wish I'd just said, "A better email drives more revenue than a bad one."
2) Connect every dot back to "Why us."
When asked about LensAdvizor [a Shopify app we built in 2020], I regaled them with a 20-second novella.
I wish I'd just said: "We solved a problem for Rocket Eyewear [my store], turned it into a profitable app with 800 users, and now we're doing it again with Sendif."
3) Empathise.
These poor guys have to cram hundreds of interviews into back-to-back 10-minute sprints.
They wanna learn more about you.
But they don't have time.
So be crisp.
Help them help you.
Quickly!
And don't get butthurt.
P.S. If anyone else got an interview but didn't get in, please send me a DM!
Would love to set up a group with you guys so we can connect and work our butts off on our startups together (Build in Public style, perhaps?) over the summer.
P.P.S Sendif does AI-generated emails for e-commerce, 10x faster and cheaper than an agency.