Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School

YC Group Partner Diana Hu was the CTO of her YC startup Escher Reality, which was acquired by Niantic (makers of Pokemon Go). She shares her advice for being a technical founder at the earliest stages - including topics like how to ship an MVP fast, how to deal with technology choices and technical debt, and how and when to hire an engineering team. 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 - Intro 00:09 - How to Build and Perpetuate as a Technical Founder 01:56 - What Does a Technical Founder Do? 04:38 - How To Build 08:30 - Build an MVP: The Startup Process 11:29 - Principles for Building Your MVP 15:04 - Choose the Tech Stack That Makes Sense for Your Startup 19:43 - What Happens In The Launch Stage? 22:43 - When You Launch: The Right Way to Build Tech 25:36 - How the role evolved from ideating to hiring 26:51 - Summary 27:59 - Outro