YC founders face PR and marketing challenges. How The To Do List helps.

“The people putting on this event are doing it because they are appalled at how often early-stage startups are led to believe they must pay tens of thousands of dollars to hire PR and social media agencies, one person involved told TechCrunch.” It’s me. I’m the one involved. (Read more in TC. Link in the comments.) One year post YC, YC founders still reach out for office hours — quick sessions on messaging, media, interview prep, and launch strategy. I did this constantly at YC. It was part of the job — and I loved it. When I’d get the same questions again and again, I’d write a post for our resource guide – available to all YC founders. It was an easy way to scale my time. But now I run my own business. I don’t have hours to spare. It doesn’t make sense for me to take hour-long calls – and it definitely doesn’t scale. There’s a real gap in the market. Agencies are too expensive for early-stage founders, consultants (like me) have limited bandwidth, and not all investors provide in-house talent that founders can tap. So, a group of us – ex-YC, ex-a16z – came together to fill the gap with The To Do List. One day. Invite-only. Hands-on. Just a tight group of founders walking away understanding how to break through the noise with comms and marketing. 📰 Read more in TechCrunch. Link in the comments.  👋 And if you're a founder who wants in, shoot me a note.