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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,051 posts.
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YC Research
Updated on 6/5/20 YC Research, now OpenResearch [http://openresearchlab.org/], and its portfolio of research projects are no longer affiliated with Y Combinator. YCR generated important ideas and organizations, and we are proud to have helped them get up and running. They have, in fact, been operating independently…
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Ben Horowitz’s Best Startup Advice
Ben Horowitz is undoubtedly one of the most well-respected and successful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. He’s known for being both…
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YC Fall 2015 College Tour
How do you come up with an idea? What makes a great founding team? How do you raise money from investors? Join YC partners and alumni at colleges around the country. Hear their stories and find out what it’s really like to start a startup. You’ll also have the chance to sign up for one-on-one office hours. 9/19: Hack…
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YC Open Office Hours for Black and Hispanic Founders
Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved — and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology. As a result, we’re piloting a program called “Open Office Hours”. We are reaching out to…
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Don’t Build a Billion-Dollar Business
The better goal? Keep your head down, make a great product, and build a successful business. Silicon Valley prays at the altar of the billion-dollar
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Ghost: $411k Annual Revenue with a team of 6
It's April 2015, our annual run rate is $411,000 - and today we're announcing the Ghost public revenue dashboard, proudly powered by Baremetrics.
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Joining a Different YC
I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Y Combinator full-time. My job is to help our companies make hardware people want faster and better than ever before. Fortunately, our alumni are the best resource in the world for this: they’ve built some of the most innovative startups of the last decade. Coupled with our…
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YC Fellowship
Ten years ago, Paul Graham said there could be ten times as many startups if more people realized they could try. Thanks to the work he, Jessica, Trevor and Robert helped do, that’s become true. We think there is still room for another ten-fold increase in the number of (good) startups. But even now, a lot of good…
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Keybase raises $10.8M
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Why we kept our startup in Australia
News, product updates, and conversations shaping the future of digital value from Macropod and the people building the next generation of payments.
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Financial Indicators for Startups at Different Stages
Learning to read financial documents is one thing, but learning to use them as tools to guide the business and ultimately communicate clearly to 100+
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Vinod Khosla: I believe 70% of VCs reduce the potential of a company
Read insights from cutting-edge research by Stanford GSB faculty and global industry leaders on topics like management, entrepreneurship, and careers.
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Well, We Failed – Wattage is shutting down
We set out with ambitious plans but after a year of development, we’ve run out of cash and are shutting down Wattage.
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YC Open-Source Sales Agreement
We’ve just open-sourced a sales agreement [http://www.ycombinator.com/documents/#sales]any company can use. Though obviously you should use this at your own risk, we’ve had a lot of experience with what makes good and bad sales agreements. Special thanks to Tyler Bosmeny, James Riley, and Carolynn and Jon Levy for all…
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