Michael Seibel is a partner and the CEO of YC. He cofounded Justin.tv, which was in the winter 2007 batch and Socialcam, which was in the winter 2012 batch.   / mwseibel  

In this video Michael comments on his essay One Order of Operations for Starting a Startup https://blog.ycombinator.com/oneorde...

The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon   / craigcannon  

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Topics

00:00 One Order of Operations for Starting a Startup

1:00 People aren’t taught how to find ideas

2:40 Find a particular problem that you’re passionate about

6:15 Find some friends and brainstorm a solution

8:40 Build an MVP

11:15 Two failed orders of operations for starting a startup