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YC Build Sprint - 4 week sprint and 20 equity free grants

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We’re excited to announce our 1st YC Build Sprint. This is a 4-week period where you'll work intensively towards a goal, alongside a community of founders. The sprint kicks off on Aug 24. We'll award 20 equity-free grants to companies who complete the sprint.

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Hey everyone! Really excited to launch the YC Build Sprint. We've been working on this for the last month. The main goal here is to help founders get as much done as possible in a 4-week period. We've found that time pressure can be really helpful for productivity, even if it's external (and even somewhat contrived). Really excited to see what everyone gets done over the next month. Let's build!
This sounds a great learning and productive opportunity. Thank you for making this, Kyle
Great UI. Glad to see the updated YC portal and the approach of focusing on builders.
"You do not need to achieve your sprint goal to be eligible." What does that mean?
Maker
That's referring to the 20 $10k grants we're giving out post-sprint -- eligibility for the grants isn't tied to whether you achieve the goal you set for yourself.
I don't get it, so I don't have to achieve the goal?
Seems really cool. We did startup school last year with and it really helped us accelerate PhotoRoom and also get into YC. I would really recommend it. I am also curious about the improvements from last year?
Maker
Glad you enjoyed SUS and got into the batch! If you're interested in the changes between last year and the current continuous program, this blog post may be helpful:
Major fan of the continuous program as a life long learner. Can’t wait to spend the next four weeks building like crazy!
This addresses our biggest challenge and we know we are certainly not alone. YC Startup School has been an invaluable resource and this appears to take it up a notch. Looking forward to it.
Looks cool. Curious why the metric for success here is growth instead of user satisfaction, retention, or Product/Market Fit? Seems like this will be gamed to the detriment of the startups.
Maker
You can set any metric/goal you would like during the sprint - the key is growing that metric! So you could absolutely set your goal to be increase 30 day retention from 25% to 40%, or to increase the % of satisfied users (ala )
that's great to know and makes the program a lot more appealing.
This is so timely for me and my small (pre-launch) team currently working our way through Startup School. Definitely signing up :)
Maker
Glad you're finding the platform useful! Definitely let us know if there's anything we can do better.
Awesome! Often out of small projects big companies start. I went through Startup School this winter and got into YC for this summer's batch. I highly recommend everyone who is remotely thinking of starting something to go through Startup School first.
Maker
Yay! Glad you found SUS useful and glad you're in our current batch. :)
As an alumnus and regular mentor during the 2019 and early 2020 Startup School cohorts I can definitely say there is a ton of value for founders here. I look forward to seeing how this differs from the 8-10 week cohorts. Kudos!~
Very clean interface! Great job guys!
Very clean UI, nice! :)
Looks really interesting. Will be signing up!!
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