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Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 66 posts.
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Vercel raise $40M Series B
Today we announce $40M in new funding to help everyone build the next web. Next.js and Vercel help teams collaborate and move faster with greater flexibility.
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Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters
We have made the difficult decision to shut down operations at ROSS Intelligence. As of Monday of this week, we have no longer been accepting new customers. As of January 31, 2021, the ROSS platform will no longer be available. Between now and then, our priority is to help our current customers transition to other…
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The Airbnbs
To celebrate Airbnb’s IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb. What was special about the Airbnbs was how earnest they were. They did nothing half-way, and we could sense this even in the interview. Sometimes after we interviewed a startup we’d be…
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DoorDash from Application to IPO
DoorDash is the first company that I’ve had the opportunity to follow all the way from YC application to IPO, so to celebrate I thought it would be fun and interesting to share what a great company like DoorDash looks like at the earliest stages. Meeting startups at the very start of their journey is one of my…
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Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
Front is a B2B team email product, competitive with Zendesk and Intercom, with 137% net dollar retention. We value Front at $1.3B with a price per share of $11.
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I sold Baremetrics
2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the
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YC Startup School for future founders who aren't quite ready to start yet
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…
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How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. At YC, we’ve funded more than 75 companies in this situation. We also recently went on a Bio Tour [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio-tour-2020/] where we went around to research…
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A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Shel Kaphan was the first employee at Amazon. He is currently pursuing personal interests and still living in Seattle. Discussed: Getting…
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Startup Financial Modeling: What is a Financial Model? (2016)
This series is the result of a friendly debate I had recently with Troy Henikoff (former Techstars Chicago Accelerator Managing Director) regarding the best...
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Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
Retool raises $50M led by Sequoia
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Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
Today, we’re launching Pitch to the world. Learn how we’re modernizing presentation software to help teams stay connected and do their best work.
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How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck
YC's Janelle Tam on how to put together a great Series A pitch and deck.
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The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about. Here's where I've struggled.
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State of Independent SaaS
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.
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Why I am building permapeople.org
Four years ago my grandfather gave me two potatoes. I had no idea what to do, so I put them in bought soil ...
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How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup
Canny recently hit a major revenue milestone: one million dollars in annual recurring revenue. Here's how we built a $1m ARR SaaS startup from the ground up.
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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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SaaS Financial Model
How to build a SaaS financial model you'll actually use: operating model, revenue forecast, hiring plan, scenarios, and forecast vs actuals.
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Pricing Low-Touch SaaS
How to approach pricing and packaging a new SaaS app, by example
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Removing email registration improved retention
Why email registration is dead. How removing it improved retention by a solid 4.5%