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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I’ve sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
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Paying freelancers in equity and dividends
Gumroad pays freelancers around the world $125-$200/hr. They choose how much of this they'd like to get in equity–between 0 and 80%. Equity entitles one to annual dividends.
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VCs aren’t your friends
As founder-friendly as VCs claim to be, they remain investment professionals. Many first-time founders are oblivious to this nuance, and are in for a rude awakening when they start their raise.
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The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
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A fourteen-day free trial ain’t gonna cut it
Ramblings about common free trial lengths and time-to-convert.
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A framework to help B2B founders find product-market fit
PMF Method from First Round is a free, intensive experience designed to help exceptional B2B founders increase their odds of finding extreme product-market fit. Read about the four levels of PMF in this preview of PMF Method content.
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The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework
Arc is our company-building immersion for pre-seed and seed stage companies. This framework outlines three distinct archetypes of PMF which help you understand your product’s place in the market and determine how your company operates.
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Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces
Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.
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Beeper acquired by Automattic
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
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How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
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DataStax just bought our startup Langflow
The past few weeks have been nuts, and we’ve been itching to share some huge news with you all… 🥁 Langflow is joining DataStax!
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You won't find a technical co-founder
Breakneck is the ultimate SaaS Starter Kit for .net developers. Lettings you focus on your business instead of boilerplate code.
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Want to start a startup? Meet all the YC partners in Boston – Apr 20th
Join us for Startup School East on April 20.
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The Reddits
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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New Beeper Android app – Open beta test
It’s the day all you Beeper Android fans have all been waiting for…our new app is ready for you to try out!Our team has been working hard on this stunner of an app. Forget everything you thought yo…
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Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
Over the course of my tech career thus far, I’ve been through two acquisitions. In each case, I was just a normal employee without any special inside knowledge, and found out only a few days before the deals were publicly announced. In retrospect, however, there were some clear signs in the weeks leading up to the…
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The end of Airplane.dev
I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
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PlanetScale performs layoff and prioritizes profitability
PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.
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Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup
Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild
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Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)
Learn how liquidation preferences and drag-along rights can leave startup founders with zero payout—even in a half-billion dollar exit
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Frugly vs. Freemium
uglify the UI for non-paying consumers
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The worst users come from referral programs, free trials, coupons
Above: Many small business figured out the hard way why coupon sites generate worse users
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When should you give up on a project that doesn't work?
I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.
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Brex Layoffs
Today, Brex Founder and co-CEO Pedro Franceschi sent the following note to Brex employees:
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I regret selling my startup
Selling my company was a milestone that many entrepreneurs dream of. But today, I get to look back on all of that nearly two years later with the benefit of hindsight.
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