#80 - Office Hours with Adora Cheung

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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/nolimits">Adora Cheung</a> is a partner at YC and she also cofounded Homejoy, which went through YC in the Summer 2010 batch.<br><br>For this episode we took questions from the internet. If you have questions for a future office hours episode, just tweet them our way.<br><br><b>Questions<br><br></b>0:41 - topherPedersen asks - How many users did you have when you applied to YC? Also, how much revenue had you generated?<br><br>2:55 - Hatlii asks - How do you keep going if you can’t raise any money?<br><br>4:54 - Alejandro Ruperti asks - When/how do you decide to walk away from something you started?<br><br>10:41 - Chris Melnick-MacDonald asks - What advice and lessons did you learn in entering the #Canadian market?<br><br>13:16 - Yahya Elamrani asks - Do I have to work on culture in the very early stage?<br><br>15:39 - Adam Sanders asks - What was the best decision you made for Homejoy?<br><br>16:53 - Ujjawal Chauhan asks - Would love to know what’s the one thing she’d do differently in hindsight if she were to start over again?<br><br>20:35 - Nikita Butakov asks - What are some unique data science / machine learning challenges faced by Homejoy?<br><br>22:07 - Alejandro Ruperti asks - From @tferriss : how has a failure or apparent failure set you up for a later success?<br><br>32:37 - Siamak Freydoonnejad asks - What are the best practices when doing a cold reach out to an investor?<br><br>33:14 - 😎rliesaurus @ ✈️ 🇪🇺asks - Is Uber for X still a thing people would invest in, in the US?<br><br>36:21 - Fedor Paretsky asks - How have YC's views on cryptocurrency/blockchain-related startups changed since Coinbase?<br><br>42:56 - Manav asks - What type of companies is YC seeing more of this time around?<br><br>46:45 - Yahya Elamrani - What are the best marketing strategies for year one for a b2c startup?<br><br>53:55 - Yahya Elamrani asks - What would you say to a founder from a third world country where there is a big lack in tech talents (and you can't compete with big corps due to lack of resources) in term of hiring?<br><br>55:50 - Aspiring Angel asks - What’s the best way for investors interested in startup seed/angel funding get started? How does location affect the process?</p>