#133 - Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale

Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC he cofounded Wufoo. Kevin’s on the podcast today to do some Office Hours and talk about this year’s edition of Startup School . If you’d like to sign up or learn more, check out https://StartupSchool.org . The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon . Y Combinator invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups (recently 200), twice a year. Learn more about YC and apply for funding here: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/ *** Topics 00:00 - Intro 00:51 - Stats from Startup School 2018 2:11 - Updates for Startup School 2019 8:41 - Sign up at StartupSchool.org 9:16 - Sean Maina asks - In the early days of Wufoo, how did you give a great customer experience? 11:56 - Design affordances 14:11 - Sunil Tej asks - How was Wufoo 10x better than the market when they just got started? 18:11 - Building an audience before a product 20:41 - Wufoo's growth 23:56 - Coming up with the idea for Wufoo 27:56 - Companies pivoting during YC 29:26 - Building a product in an unsexy space 32:56 - Sivaraj Ghanesh asks - How do you know if you've achieved product market fit? Or if your product just isn't noticed yet? 43:56 - Sivaraj Ghanesh asks - How do you gauge the size of a market? 46:26 - Tips for Startup School success 50:41 - Advice on vetting cofounders 54:11 - Sign up at StartupSchool.org