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When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…
Dozens of founders have used this technique to transform the cash-flow of their businesses. Now it's your turn.
Level of difficulty: insane
I'm creating an app that started as a simple note-taking tool but has now grown into a full-fledged project way beyond what I could have imagined. Let me tell…
A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency.
Now is a good time to start a service business. Maybe you should try it! A service business is one where your company sells its work output directly instead of selling a product. Dentists, plumbers, design agencies, pool cleaner, consultants: these are all service businesses. The opposite of a service business is a…
〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being an entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first ... Read more
Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I’ve sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
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.
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.
Or, how to ensure you learn absolutely nothing.
Ramblings about common free trial lengths and time-to-convert.
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.
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.
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.
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
The past few weeks have been nuts, and we’ve been itching to share some huge news with you all… 🥁 Langflow is joining DataStax!
Breakneck is the ultimate SaaS Starter Kit for .net developers. Lettings you focus on your business instead of boilerplate code.
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"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
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…
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…
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.
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.
Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild
Learn how liquidation preferences and drag-along rights can leave startup founders with zero payout—even in a half-billion dollar exit
