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How to Succeed with a Startup [video]
Sam Altman [https://twitter.com/sama], President of Y Combinator, shares his thoughts on how you can succeed with a startup. Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/
YC is doing a first ever Fall batch – applications due by 8/27
In response to overwhelming demand, we are running a YC batch this fall. Applications are now open.
A New Codecademy
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
How YC Has Changed
As YC grows, founders are wondering how it’s improved over time. This is a valid line of questioning – clearly much has changed about YC over 13 years. We have new leadership [http://www.ycombinator.com/people/], much larger batch sizes [https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/batch-stats/], we invest more money…
The Cadence: How to Operate a SaaS Startup
You think you need a COO. What you really need is an operating philosophy.
All the wrong reasons for Stack Overflow's VC chase
Joel has decided to chase venture capital for StackOverflow, but I can’t exactly figure out why. He lists six benefits that just don’t compute under even light scrutiny: 1. The Answers market is in a land grab modeUnlike eBay, where there’s a general market for goods and you ge…
YC Startup School: Build Sprint and Equity-Free Grants
We’re excited to announce our first-ever YC Build Sprint. This is a 4-week period to work intensively towards a defined goal alongside a community of thousands of other founders. The sprint will kick off on August 24 and be administered through our free Startup School platform. Also, we’ll be awarding 20 grants of…
Request for Education Startups
At YC, we’re deeply interested in education because of its power to transform lives and societies and to maximize human potential. On a micro level, we believe technology can help reverse the trend in K-12 of spending more and more money to achieve the same learning outcomes. We believe tech can also create…
Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
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Pricing a SaaS product (2019)
Today I increased pricing plans across Votemojo and Previewmojo. All plans now start at $49 a month. Here's why charging $9 a month for your indie SaaS product is a really silly idea.
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…
Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?
The hardest conversation I have to have with a founder is when they’ve spent their 1-2 million dollar angel round but haven’t found product market fit [https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/]. Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money?…
ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru
Read the latest news and technical tips about Source Code Management, Source Code Hosting, Perforce, SVN and Git.