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Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in the…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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My Startup School Europe talk: The Technology
Note: This is the talk I gave at Startup School Europe, which was held last Saturday in London. You've heard a lot of great startup advi...
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The Dentist Office Software Story
I’ve been telling this fictional story about Dentist Office Software for years to describe why we are so focused on our “networks” investment strategy. Yesterday I told it at a HackNY event we did at the USV office and my partner Albert provided a finishing touch that really drives it home. Since I’ve never told […]
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Black Swan Seed Rounds
I started seed investing in 2010 (and much more actively in 2012) before becoming a full-time YC partner. In this period, I invested in about 40 companies. So far, five of them are in the “really...
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Diversity and Startups
Sexism in tech is real. One of the most insidious things happening in the debate is people claiming versions of “other industries may have problems with sexism, but our industry doesn’t.” Both men and women claim this, even though it keeps getting harder to do in the face of shocks like the Tinder texts. We know there…
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Trello, Inc
Hello? is this thing on? I’m not sure if I even know how to operate this “blog” device any more. It’s been a year since my last post. I’m retired from blogging, remember? Want to hear something fun…
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Customer churn can kill your startup
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html">Startups are about growth</a>, and of all the different possible metrics, s...
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Make Things and Show Them
We’ve often been asked to make a section of Hacker News that’s just for Show HNs, so we did. We’rereleasing it today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826], along with a new set ofShow HN guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]. In late 2008 and early 2009, users submitting their work to Hacker…
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Are We Welcome Entrepreneurs or Unwanted Criminals?
Almost deported in First Class
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New RFS: One Million Jobs
We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good…
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Songza is Joining Google
With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere else.
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New Y Combinator Website
Our website got a facelift [http://www.ycombinator.com]. [http://www.ycombinator.com] The content is pretty much the same. Since the old site was mostly text, I did my best to just make that text easier to digest and hopefully entice people to get through more of it. A lot of the best content on the site like What…
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Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going?
Editor's Note: This is one of the longest posts I've made - in length and duration. It's said that one year in the life of a startup is the equivalent of dog years when compared to more established co
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Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR
Japanese candy subscription box Candy Japan exceeded $10,000 per month in sales.
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Mattermark Has Raised $2M in Our Second Seed Round
After taking $3.4M in total funding over the past 2 years, it’s time to take a break from fundraising
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Valuations
People have been saying that startup valuations are really high for about 3 years now. I myself feel that they are high, but I have no idea when they are likely to change. It’s mostly investors...
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Startup advice: cold recruiting
Recruiting outside of your personal network
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YC Hacks – August 2-3
We’re hosting a hackathon this summer at YC in Mountain View. Our goal is to give smart hackers an excuse to get together and spend time building something they find interesting. We don’t have a theme—we want to leave it open to any good ideas. The hackathon will start Saturday, August 2 at noon, and end August 3 in…
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I'm Launching 12 Startups in 12 Months
I liked the idea of Jennifer Dewalt’s 180 websites in 180 days. However, unlike Jennifer who learned web development from scratch, I can already build stuff. M…
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Gittip, Year Two
Gittip Works! But not yet for Gittip
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My journey into the Berlin startup scene
Six years as Heroku’s CTO was the greatest professional experience of my life. But what’s next?
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