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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 119 posts.
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Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors
Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
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Updates from YC
We have a few updates about YC to share. Things are going well — in the past two years, we launched Startup School [https://www.startupschool.org/], the Series A program [https://blog.ycombinator.com/introducing-yc-series-a-batches/], the YC Growth program [https://blog.ycombinator.com/growth-stage-program/], Work at…
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Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight
To advance our mission, we are reimagining travel by building an end-to-end travel platform. Today, we are building on this work by signing an agreement to acquire HotelTonight.
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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Minimum Viable Personality (2011)
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's […]
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Intern at a YC Company
If you’re an ambitious undergrad or graduate student with an engineering background, YC can help you get an internship at a YC-backed company. You apply once, and your profile will be sent to over 50 YC startups that are looking for summer interns. The 50 companies participating in our Work at a Startup…
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YC Interviews in NYC
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a small number of interviews for the Summer 2019 batch of YC in New York City on February 23. This will be the first in a series of interviews we do in cities outside the Bay Area. We’ll start with New York and will soon announce interview dates for other cities…
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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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Leap Spins out of YC
In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…
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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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