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Vercel raises $150M Series D
Vercel raised a $150M Series D at a $2.5B valuation to accelerate its mission to make the Web faster for developers and teams.
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We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR
It took us a year to reach the first $400 MRR and then it took us nine months to go from $400 to $10k MRR. Now, ten months after the $10k milestone, we’re at $500,000 ARR.
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Results from being #1 on Hacker News for 6 hours
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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My 10 Year Side Project Story
Dateful Time Zone Converter converts times instantly as you type. Convert between major world cities, countries and timezones in both directions.
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What do people want in a co-founder?
YC launched a co-founder matching platform about 3 months ago. There are now 16,000 co-founder profiles on the platform. Potential co-founders have sent 130,000 matching invites through the platform, and, with a 25% acceptance rate, we’ve seen a total of 33,000 matches.
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My first year at Magic Leap and the opportunity ahead
Magic Leap is pioneering see-through augmented reality through innovative waveguide development and manufacturing. Groundbreaking optics technologies.
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‘Give away your Legos’ and other commandments for scaling startups
Molly Graham helped forge a work culture at Facebook that's withstood huge amounts of growth. Today, she's something of a rapid scaling expert. Here's the key to doing it right, she says.
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How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
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Ginkgo Bioworks (YC S14) is going public today
Ginkgo Bioworks [https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ginkgo-bioworks] is the first biotech company YC funded, and today they are going public. To celebrate their IPO, here’s the story of how Ginkgo Bioworks ended up in YC, and what their journey was like as YC’s first biotech startup. In 2014, YC had been funding…
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The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their first six months of going live, Gagan Biyani has landed on an approach that’s quite different.
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Stripe banned us for payment disputes but we never had a single dispute
As an entrepreneur, I have never felt such pain as I do while typing this. We have faced numerous challenges before but non compares to the arbitrary closing of our Payment account by Stripe for literally no reason.
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Intuit to Acquire Mailchimp for $12B
Read Intuit press releases going back to 2007, from earnings announcements to investor event news. Filter by year or show financial releases only.
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My app failed: lessons learned
Making Software, the hardest way to make an easy living. TL:DR – check out Rithm: Habit tracking machine v2 in apple app store today Hey Kyle here, maker of Rithm. So early 2020, I launched Rithm, an app that helps...
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Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)
While I was at a family wedding a few weeks ago, one of my aunts asked me, “So, what’s the hardest part about designing a game? It must be coming up with the ideas, right?” I laug…
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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.
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Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.
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Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
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How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure (2019)
The story of its last-minute pivot and epic comeback.
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How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
We created a free Slack message scheduler called Message Them Later and didn't market it. Yet, somehow, we have 200k users and counting. What does that tell us?
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Common data model mistakes made by startups
Data modeling is hard. Here are some missteps to avoid when you're developing your models.
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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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Coinbase from YC to DPO
Today, Coinbase has gone public. We are proud to say that Coinbase is a Y Combinator company and a member of the Summer 2012 batch.