Kat Mañalac is the head of YC’s Outreach team and advises early stage founders on their launches during the YC batch. She shares the multitude of ways to launch a product and how to get attention for them. Her talk provides tangible strategies and examples of startup launches and will change the way you think about launching.
Apply to Y Combinator: https://yc.link/SUS-apply
Work at a startup: https://yc.link/SUS-jobs
Chapters (Powered by https://bit.ly/chapterme-yc) –
00:00 – Launching Your Startup
01:28 – When Should I Launch My Startup?
03:42 – One Sentence Pitch
05:19 – How to Create a Short Memorable Description
09:17 – When is the X for Y Construction Not Too Cliche?
12:05 – Types of Launches
20:43 – Summary








How long is too long for waitlist?
Who else is here before this blows up
Hiii!
Looking for co-founder. Im proficient in Next.js / Python / AI ML
Launched a couple of products already but I need a teammate cuz its hard to do stuff solo
Are you the voice behind ALUXER ?
Insightful 👌
I launched in 1980
I have been building an AI powered SaaS app since long time. Till today, I was feeling like it's incomplete but after watching this video I'm motivated to launch within this month and let's see what happen.
This was great, thank you. Saving for future 🤞