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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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YC 120
[https://ghost.prod.ycinside.com/content/images/wordpress/2019/01/yc120-v1.png] The world is shaped by people with intelligence, drive and vision. At YC, we’ve learned a lot about cultivating a network of such people — and we believe that having a strong network is such a force multiplier that it is one of the most…
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A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
We’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. This puts founders at a significant disadvantage because VCs see term sheets all the time and know what to expect. Because…
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Don't Pay to Acquire Your First Users
Recently, a founder asked to chat with me about SEO. During our call, the founder - whose startup is backed by a top-tier VC - said to me “I assume that you acquired your first users through paid marketing.” Really? Is this an assumption nowadays? Since we’ve raised money
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Two creators are not always better than one
Team superiority is a myth.
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How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project
We create content that your buyers trust — original research, data journalism, earned coverage, and content built for credibility.
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Vinod Khosla with Sam Altman on How to Build the Future [video]
Vinod Khosla [https://twitter.com/vkhosla] is the founder of Khosla Ventures [https://www.khoslaventures.com/], a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Previously he was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC…
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Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
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Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
Exclusive analysis of business spend on Brex and fresh finance insights.
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What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”
We take this and other standard questions, translate their subtext, and provide you with the best approach to help you land the job.
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Starting a Business in Silicon Valley
A Personal Story (This is the text of an essay I read in a presentation at African Leadership University in Mauritius. Please see the video of that presentation here. For the other lectures from that trip, please see this playlist.) When it comes to starting a business, Silicon Valley is...
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Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
When I first joined a startup in 2012 I did my best to ask the right questions when interviewing. My engineering background prepared me for engineering tasks and helped me write a resume, but it didn’t prepare me well for how to evaluate a startup offer. While this might be obvious to some, this is what I wish I knew…
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Autodesk to Acquire PlanGrid (YC W12) to Accelerate Construction Productivity
Companies Aim to Improve Information Exchange Across All Construction Project Teams SAN RAFAEL, CA, Nov 20, 2018 — Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire PlanGrid, a leading provider of construction productivity software, for $875 million net of cash. This acquisition will enable…
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Pivot or Fail?
The Pivot is celebrated in startup land. Huge successes like Twitter and Slack are all the results of pivots. So surely pivoting is a good thing, right? Well, I am not so sure. And I certainly don’t want entrepreneurs to think that pivoting is the right thing to do when their original idea fails. It […]
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Series A Fundraising Guide
If you raised a Seed round, sooner or later you’ll be fundraising – again
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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in startup's metrics
Growing startups and evaluating startups share common skills Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. This was a big moment for me, and the result of a long relationship that…
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Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies
The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...