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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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How much do Y Combinator founders earn?
Image source Introduction and summary We're interested in estimating how much tech entrepreneurs earn, since it's one of our top recommended careers, partly because of its earnings. Big earners can create a lot of economic value and can sometimes become big donors. We wanted to find out: if you get into Y Combinator…
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The Economics of a Kickstarter Project
or How Much I Didn’t Make
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Quora in the next YC batch
This month, YC will be participating in Quora’s most recent investment round and Quora will be joining this summer’s YC batch. This is a new experiment for us; we’ve funded later-stage companies before, but none close to Quora’s stage. Our hope is that both the company and the YC community will get a lot of value out…
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Why our startup failed
Écrits, photos et conférences de Thomas Parisot, développeur web indépendant.
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Startup School is going global
In the past few years, we’ve seen more founders from around the world coming to Silicon Valley to start startups. In YC’s W14 batch alone, we had founders from 22 different countries, and every year we see an increasing number of international applicants. We want to help founders from all over learn about startups, so…
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The Bubble Question
Everywhere I go, everywhere I speak, I get asked this question. Are we in a bubble? I’ve been getting asked that question for at least four years now. It’s hard to sustain a bubble for four years. But we are also not in a normal valuation environment for high growth tech companies and we have […]
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A New Codecademy
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
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The Worst Part of YC
We are going to send out YC summer 2014 interview decisions (both yes and no) before 10 pm PDT tonight. The worst part of our job at YC is rejecting companies. It leaves me feeling down for many...
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After reviewing about 30 YC applications, here's some general advice
Demo day just wrapped up for Beacon. We feel pretty good about what we've done since starting YC in January. But it's been a long and winding road to get here. One of my cofounders (@dmitric) and...
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Oculus Joins Facebook
We started Oculus with a vision of delivering incredible, affordable, and ubiquitous consumer virtual reality to the world. We’ve come a long...
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Top Inventions at Browserling
Today is 4 years since I and my co-founder James Halliday have been working at Browserling Inc. I thought I'd share what I think are the top 10 inventions at our company. The first two choices are obvious. They're our products Browserling and Testling. The next eight choices are useful and popular open source…
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New RFS – Breakthrough Technologies
We’d like for Y Combinator to fund more breakthrough technology companies—companies that solve an important problem, have a very long time horizon, and are based on an underlying technological or...
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Two New YC Partners: Justin Kan and Aaron Harris
I’m delighted to announce that Justin Kan and Aaron Harris are joining Y Combinator as Partners. Justin was in the very first YC batch with me in the summer of 2005, and has been a part-time partner since 2011. Justin founded Kiko, Justin.tv/Twitch.tv, Socialcam, and Exec. He took the “do what it takes” directive of…
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Last Minute Advice for YC Applicants
In 2009 I wrote a blog post here about advice for startups applying for YC. Little did I know years later I'd become a partner at Y Combinator and have the chance to shape hundreds of new startups...
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Full Stack Startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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