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I'm a product manager at a startup. Our company went through YC, but I'm not going to be a terribly useful source of advice about how to get in, other than 'don't suck.' I don't quite get the focus on idea generation and plan creation. That's useful, but building stuff and then selling it to people is where the majority of the work is.
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taqueso posted:What YC company are you with, if you don't mind sharing? I'm happy to share in PM, but I'd like to keep this username separate from my professional persona. Idea generation is a huge part of creating a product. I've also observed that many people use coming up with business plans as a sort of procrastination that prevents them from progressing. The other part of coming up with ideas for products is planning how to build them. I also think it's a healthy phase to be in if you want to start working in startups. I spent maybe a couple years coming up with ideas that I never executed on before actually working as anything other than a contractor at a startup. One thing that I noticed with myself is that I managed to convince myself that some of my good ideas were not viable. For example, I wanted to create a suit-tailoring company that would allow you to submit your measurements and then to have a skilled tailor in China make it for you. Interviewing people that actually knew the business convinced me not to do it. Earlier this year, I read about a company actually doing that and enjoying early success at it. I doubt I would have succeeded if I had actually tried, but I let my 'research' prevent me from being empirical about testing my entrepreneurial hypothesis. My best advice is that if you want to be a founder (which I have not been, so take this with some salt) is to build your idea on the smallest scale possible first. Get one customer or one download. Create a mockup or a prototype before starting to build something big.
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