Max Skibinsky, entrepreneur, angel investor and business mentor

Max lives in Silicon Valley for more than 18 years, during which time he successfully passed the Y-combinator, created 4 start-up companies, the last of which was successfully sold. He created the first startup in the 90s, and his clients were Netscape, AOL, Celera Games, Electronic Arts. Then Max created Hive7.com, a social gaming company that was sold at Playdom and then at Disney. Now Max is working on a new company - Inporia.


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In his interview, Max covers the following topics:

Errors that startup startupers make often
What mistakes do Russian-speaking startups make in the Valley?
What features of our business culture hinder the development
Recruitment talent
Secrets of the Y-combinator
Company culture - what it is, why it is needed, and how it works
Changing start-up development trends in the Valley, how the startup environment has changed over the past 10 years
How to use metrics and their importance, what metrics it is important to collect.
How to make investment decisions based on metrics
Determining the present value of customer acquisition
What makes a startup unique
What qualities of the founders are important for investors
How to get to the Y-combinator