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Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the i…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,603 posts.
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Ups and downs of a side project
Reflections from a 4-year side project journey.
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How to Sell Your Startup
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
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1k True Fans (2008)
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →
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Startup childhood – Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
Tiny startups are not Google-in-miniature-form
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Request for Startups: Climate Tech
At YC, we believe founders and startups can make a positive impact on climate change and support the transition to a sustainable future. Here are a few areas and ideas we find most interesting, and hope to see founders apply with.
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Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder
In the quest to explore the capabilities of ChatGPT, I decided to utilized it as a startup brainstorming partner. From product description to building the product on AWS and GCP, crafting an elevat...
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Google has a company strategy, not a product strategy
Or, Why Google keeps killing products
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$7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt
Our Amazon journey started in January 2018 when HyperVolt released the first massage gun on the market. We were so careful with this…
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Tldraw's $2.7M Seed – A new collaborative infinite canvas for the web
We're building a new infinite canvas for the web: built with React, made for developers, and with a super-fast engine for collaboration. Try it today.
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Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
Rust is awesome, for certain things. But think twice before picking it up for a startup that needs to move fast.
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Carolynn Levy, Inventor of the SAFE
Levy shares how she wrote the five-page document that underpins much of early-stage venture capital today.
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Which one of these will be the biggest “unicorn” failure ever?
Jeffrey Lee Funk and Gary Smith have a list of startups with $3 bllion or more in cumulative losses:
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Books recommended by profitable founders
At \\MicroSaaSHQ,\\ we try to cover stories from founders building successful Micro SaaS and other profitable products. One of the things we've been curious...
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Being a Solo Software Entrepreneur at 40
A tale of growth, responsibilities, and limits.
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Mozilla launches venture fund to fuel responsible tech companies
Initial $35M will foster an ecosystem of startups that push the internet — and the tech industry — in a better direction Industry veteran M
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Startup engineering hiring anti-patterns (2021)
The most important traps to avoid when hiring startup engineers.
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Product Market Fit
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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I surveyed 500 startup founders about their salaries
The 2022 Founder Salary Report is here! Get a sense of what your peers are doing, and what the trends are for companies like yours. Get access to the full report ->
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How Fly.io and Tailscale Saved Notado
A technical overview of Notado's migration to Fly.io
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A summary of my learnings on how to find startup ideas
I’ve been searching for new startup ideas and problem areas to tackle. It’s quite difficult to do, especially when you begin adding constraints to the criteria such as “Am I excited about this problem space?”. The internet is filled with helpful ways to come up with startup ideas and below is the summary of what I’ve…
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Brex layoffs
Our co-founder and co-CEO sent an email to the Brex team today to share a difficult message.
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Stripe is PayPal circa 2010
After integrating both Stripe and Paypal I've come to the realization that they are nearly the same, including all the evil.
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I Listened to 1000 B2B SaaS Sales Calls
For a project I was working on, some of the research involved listening to thousands of sales calls from well known high-growth B2B SaaS companies.