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A lot of people ask themselves this question. They often mull over one or more of the following facts: 1. The vast majority of startups are not successful 2. For talented technical people, it’s relatively easy to get a job and make a large salary 3. Large companies offer opportunities to work on very difficult…
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation [https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797] “It’s amazing how prolific Bell Labs was — the transistor, information theory, Unix, amongst other creations — but it’s fascinating to understand it as an organization…
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] [https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Times-Greenspan/dp/0143111094] “I thought Greenspan was bad but this book paints a positive image. Seb Mallaby is an awesome author so makes for an easy read.”…
[https://ycombinator.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SSYC_Logo.png] We’re excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org [http://startupschool.org/] for the 10-week massively open online course (MOOC), starting today. We want to…
A post about summer reading [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17513576] on Hacker News inspired us to put a list together for 2018. Here’s what we’ve been reading. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Years of Lyndon Johnson…
Two weeks ago we announced Startup School 2018 [https://blog.ycombinator.com/announcing-startup-school-2018/]. Our free, online course will kick off in just three weeks, on August 28th. We also let founders know that 100 of the companies that complete the course will receive $10,000 in equity-free funding from YC…
We launched Startup School as an online program in 2017 to support founders actively working on building their companies. On November 9th, we’re also opening Startup School to potential founders who are interested in starting a company in the future. You can register [https://www.startupschool.org/future-founders] for…
We’ve just finished reviewing applications for the Winter 2015 batch and have sent out invitations for interviews. In this cycle we saw a +40% increase in the number of companies applying over the Summer 2014 batch. Reviewing this many companies is a humbling experience and one we take very seriously. Most of us who…
Pete Adeney, more commonly known as Mr. Money Mustache [https://twitter.com/mrmoneymustache], retired at 30 after working as a software engineer for about ten years. He blogs at MrMoneyMustache.com [http://MrMoneyMustache.com] about how he saved money, where he invested it, and how he achieved “financial freedom…
If you missed Startup School 2014, the videos are now on YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5OyY5JWSQrl_gESiEUJxe1m]. Notes from the 10th anniversary of Startup School: Ron Conway, SVAngel [http://youtu.be/qvHhhIfu7Lo?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5OyY5JWSQrl_gESiEUJxe1m] Are entrepreneurs made or born?…
Happy 2017! As a kid, I just sort of took for granted that stuff got better every year—TVs got bigger and then thinner, cars got a little faster, and computers got unbelievably better on an exponential curve. As an adult, I realized that the future is not guaranteed to be better. The default is that things stay the…
We’ve often been asked to make a section of Hacker News that’s just for Show HNs, so we did. We’rereleasing it today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826], along with a new set ofShow HN guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]. In late 2008 and early 2009, users submitting their work to Hacker…