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Y Combinator Female Founder Conference (Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange)
- 1. 9 LESSONS I LEARNED STARTING SCIENCE EXCHANGE
- 2. Elizabeth Iorns • B.S. in Biomedical Science • Ph.D. in Cancer Biology • Asst Professor at University of Miami • First-time startup founder
- 5. The best problems to solve are the ones that affect you personally.
- 6. WHAT STARTUP DO YOU WISH EXISTED?
- 7. WHAT STARTUP DO YOU WISH EXISTED? …build that!
- 8. WHAT IS YOUR FOUNDING STORY?
- 10. What set us apart from 95 percent of other startups is that we served a real need.
- 11. HOW DO YOU KNOW IF A PROBLEM IS REAL?
- 12. • TALK TO USERS • MARKET RESEARCH • LAUNCH MVP ASAP
- 16. MIX WITH PEOPLE OUTSIDE YOUR FIELD
- 18. FOCUS ON CULTURE
- 21. DECIDE WHAT YOUR VALUES ARE… AND ONLY WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO SHARE THEM!
- 22. GET THE RIGHT ADVISORS / INVESTORS
- 23. Investors are employees you can never fire. We made sure to pick investors that thought like us.
- 25. GET SH*T DONE
- 28. FOCUS
- 31. DO THINGS THAT DON’T SCALE
- 32. Do things that won’t scale; it will teach you.
- 33. FOCUS ON FIRST 1,000 USERS (NOT FIRST 1,000,000)
- 36. DON’T GIVE UP
- 38. FOUNDING A STARTUP IS HARD!
- 39. of science
- 41. DON’T GIVE UP
- 43. THANKS