'How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup' with @ycombinator's Michael Seibel | SaaStr Annual

How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator's Managing Director
Michael Siebel, Managing Director and Group Partner @ Y Combinator
Come learn the best way to present your company to startup investors. Michael will cover best tactics to catch investor attention, reveal the secrets to what it takes to stand out by being clear, concise, and easy to understand, and so much more.

[djpardis]

Michael Seibel is such a great speaker!

[kimblebreazell]

Thank you so much! Great presentation 😊

[brandonna]

MAAAN THESE ANSWERS ARE ALL SO ON POINT! And gives me confirmation that I'm on the right path because I gave every answer accurately. loved this Great talk from Michael Seidel, presented very well! love it.

[read]

This was really insightful. Thank you for sharing it.

[StuffIBoughtDotCom]

Great talk! AirBnB's payment-processing role was IMO the second big insight, and would not pass the "originality" test in this talk. The first, biggest, colossal insight was that people could flagrantly violate their lease agreements, and in many cases local laws as well, without any serious repercussions, as long AirBnB was popular. I love AirBnB, I use them a lot, and I am 100% sure that this was their original insight. Payments were just the "d'oh" add-on that made it a money factory.

[dennishestersphr]

"Startup founders role is only for broken people!" I am glad that other people are recognizing this truth.

[BrettFogle]

Thanks for this. I found this very useful. I made many of these mistakes building my last SAAS and trying to make it ‘perfect’ before launch. I wound up building features that nobody cared about and a new customer became a competitor who built a $100M company. I’m pivoting and will incorporate your recommendations…

[זאבגלברד]

I remember listening to an angle investor that YC invited to talk in a yc-school session and he said that the founder is the most important to him. Not the idea. If the founder is determaned to succeed, and it seems that he/she can do pivoting if nacessary, that is very important. So this is one more thing to know.

[nosaiyare]

Always a pleasure listening to Michael

[tefu]

its not the world that's opressing you... its you, i laughed so hard at that line

[IdentiProfiling]

Based on point one that Michael said on Founders: Founders need to articulate well. However, being able to articulate well belongs to a small group of people... After 20 years of research, we call the personalities that can articulate well as 'Expositors'. They are a group of people whose personality's strength is to communicate. They can be very charismatic. However they represent a small fraction (about 5%) of the population. Unless they (Expositors) have other personality traits like Craftsman, or Perfectionists, Expositors DO NOT make great products. They make great teachers, politicians, leaders etc. So Founders may need to go for extra coaching or recruit a great orator if they want to succeed in their pitches.

[NourLababidi]

Facilitating surgery in batch to increase access and quality and reduce cost.

My world-class team and Saudi Partnership is my unfair advantage

[MrRWF]

Did this happen 9 months ago or 9 years or more ago?

[joespear]

I am an energy start up, oil and renewable

[alisonmadsen]

Good points but very time he uses profanity it turns me off. Hope he doesn’t do that with investors. He would’ve lost me at the first “F” word.