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Stripe Atlas: Getting your first 10 customers
Guide to getting your first 10 customers
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Y Combinator's Founding Principles
Y Combinator's Principles, as written by its founders.
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Request for Education Startups
At YC, we’re deeply interested in education because of its power to transform lives and societies and to maximize human potential. On a micro level, we believe technology can help reverse the trend in K-12 of spending more and more money to achieve the same learning outcomes. We believe tech can also create…
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YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the guidance below will…
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Pitching your early-stage startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Sam is a cofounder of PocketSuite (YC W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific service when they need it, while giving service professionals (“pros”)…
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Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans
New features are coming exclusively to GitLab.com paid plans – find out why and how to upgrade.
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A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
Wade Foster [https://twitter.com/wadefoster] is the CEO of Zapier [https://zapier.com/] (YC S12). Read Zapier’s de-location post here [https://zapier.com/blog/move-away-from-sf-get-remote-job/]. If you are interested in remote work, you can also check out our interview with Gitlab…
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Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round
Parse.ly's CEO explains why he said no to a large VC capital investment, and why other start-ups should consider doing the same.
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Benefits of a Lifestyle Business
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Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]
Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. This is her talk from the 2017 Female Founders Conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcript Jessica Livingston – I’m here to introduce our next speaker, who’s one of my just…
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Why Should I Start a Startup?
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…
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How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
There are a variety of methods to attract your first 1,000 customers, but launching with the press is my favorite. I’ll explain why and how to do it.
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Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
Read the latest company announcements, partnership news, and press highlights here.
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Marc Andreessen answers questions from Stripe Atlas founders
Marc Andreessen answers over 30 questions from Stripe Atlas founders.
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SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs
Pascal Levensohn and Andrew Krowne recently published an article: “Why Safe Notes are not safe for entrepreneurs [https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/08/why-safe-notes-are-not-safe-for-entrepreneurs/] .” The authors were critical of the safe, describing it (as the click-bait title suggests), as bad for entrepreneurs. But…
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The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
As a co-founder and CTO, here's how my role has changed over the years.