How to Get Started, Doing Things that Don't Scale, and Press (How to Start a Startup 2014: 8)

So last weekend, my family and I went out hiking in the desert. And as you can tell from these pictures I snapped along the way, it was a gorgeous hike. We made our way to this lake around a small canyon range and up and down this mountain trail. Now, al…

( Intro music ) Four years ago, I was standing in front of a group of local fishermen on a tiny island called Mitiaro in the Cook Islands. And I was there to tell them why they needed to protect sharks. Except there was one problem. They hated sharks. Sh…

Which of the following functions are continuous for all real numbers? So let’s just remind ourselves what it means to be continuous, what a continuous function looks like. A continuous function—let’s say that’s my Y-axis, that is my X-axis—a function is …

What you learn from history is the market goes down. It goes down a lot. The math is simple. There’s been 93 years, a century. This is easy to do. The market’s had 50 declines of 10% or more. So, 50 declines in 93 years, about once every two years. The m…

[Music] My name is Michael Seibel, and I’m a partner at Y Combinator. One of the questions we get all the time is, how do you find your first 10 customers? Well, to start, hopefully, you’re solving a problem that either you have or someone that you know h…

The goal of this video is to feel good about the connection that we’ve talked about between the absolute value of the determinant of a two by two matrix and the area of the parallelogram that’s defined by the two column vectors of that matrix. So, for ex…