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Michael Seibel

American Businessman

Born: Oct 7, 1982

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Finding entrepreneurs from diverse and international backgrounds is a top priority for us at Y Combinator. Michael Seibel

Top Backgrounds Finding Diverse Entrepreneurs Priority Us International

Increase your company's average talent with each hire - founders tend to be pretty smart but willing to take on risk. Employees should be a lot smarter and less risk averse. Michael Seibel

When someone posts a Socialcam video, all of their followers get an instant notification. Michael Seibel

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It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously. Michael Seibel

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If you can't hire someone smarter than you, do it yourself. Michael Seibel

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People think they need to hire someone to do their PR, but 99 percent of PR in the early stages is stuff you can do yourself. It's just like business development - there's the warm-up intro, followup to build relationships, then add something of value. Michael Seibel

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and so forth, which is just not true. It's about money. Michael Seibel

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Convince the investor that you guys are moving fast and that this isn't some long slog... you're thinking about it like a startup where you can move fast and make mistakes. Michael Seibel

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Minorities often feel like they are on the outside looking in when it comes to the Valley and tech start-ups in general. Michael Seibel

Looking Valley Minorities General Outside Feel Like Often Tech

The number one problem companies have during the Y Combinator interview is that a minute into the interview, we don't know what they do. It's the same problem with the application. You might think we're experts, but you still have to explain it to us. Michael Seibel

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The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the set of founders who were older than us had really seen the Web 1.0 meltdown. They brought that knowledge to us. Michael Seibel

For me, iPad 2 and tablets in general are really exciting from a front-facing camera perspective, making those short video clips where you're talking about where you are or what you're interested in, and your face fills up the entire screen. Michael Seibel

I was the CEO of Justin.tv, and my cofounders were senior engineers there. We came up with the idea at Justin.tv in the fall of 2010. Michael Seibel

Fall Idea Came Were Up Senior CEO Engineers

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