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AngelList Venture Raises $100M on a $4B Valuation
The round values the company at $4B pre-money.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,051 posts.
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Rules of Storytelling for Fundraising
As a Founder, you are the Chief Storyteller. Here are the storytelling methods we have observed in pitches that motivate VCs to invest.
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YC Fall Hackathon 2019
This November we’re hosting a hackathon at YC. You can find out more about the event and apply here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/236]. Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward. The top team will get a YC interview and the top three teams…
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Why SaaS prices are still going up when companies are spending less
Discover why software prices surge despite reduced spending. Explore the 2023 landscape of hikes, inflation, and AI investments.
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Startup Fuck-ups: How we lost 25% of our monthly revenue overnight
The first in a blog series called “Startup Fuck-ups” on turning bad experiences into good practices.
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Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator
"The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding"1 best describes what I felt the first time I derived the Y Combinator (guided by the Little Schemer book). Learning Lisp (by way of Scheme) is how I first came about Paul Graham's essays. Which was, of course, a gateway drug to startups. Since then, Y Combinator (the…
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What Startups Need To Know About Health Insurance in 2013
At SimplyInsured, we are avidly watching the changes in regulations and rates in the national health insurance market. As we head into 2013, we created a quick guide for startups summarizing the major changes to expect, and our advice on how to manage the changes. Changes to Health Insurance in 2013 HEALTH INSURANCE…
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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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Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
By turning code into brilliant solutions that improve people’s lives, app developers have the power to positively impact the world. At Apollo, we want to help developers help the world .To do that, we’re tackling the hardest problem in app development: data management.
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How to Beat Amazon
You can’t build a consumer brand in 2018 and ignore the 800-pound-gorilla that is Amazon.
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Chris Sacca's Act 2: Lowercarbon Capital
Because we’ve run the numbers, and shit’s not great.
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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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How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)
It’s far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary.
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The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about. Here's where I've struggled.
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Recommend a Founder for YC
Our goal at Y Combinator is to support as many great founders as possible, and we know that great founders can come from anywhere — any city, school, country or background. Companies in the Summer 2016 batch came from 16 countries and over 180 schools. We want founders everywhere to know that YC is an option for them…
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Startup engineering hiring anti-patterns (2021)
The most important traps to avoid when hiring startup engineers.
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What Founders Ask Founders About Getting into Y Combinator
5 questions a founder asked our founder about applying to YC!
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