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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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More than half of YC startups don't have a dot com
After decades as the default, dot coms are no longer used by most new startups, and alternative TLDs are the new default.
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My weekend project turned into a 3 year journey
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…
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Y Combinator Acquiring Sequoia Capital
Today, Y Combinator announced its intent to acquire Sequoia Capital. This deal is still pending regulatory review and a successful pitch by Sequoia managing partner Doug Leone on YC Summer 2016 Demo Day. We’re not disclosing the financial terms, but Sequoia’s ownership of YC-backed companies will pass to us, so I’ll…
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Exit Interview: Founders look back at acquisitions by Google, AOL, Microsoft
Exit Interview is a Signal vs. Noise series that talks to founders to see what happens after companies get acquired. Webshots Webshots has been acquired multiple times. Webshots Founder Nick Wilder: Webshots has quite a sordid history: we sold it to Excite@Home in 1999, they went bankrupt, w…
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SimulaVR's Reaction to Apple
Simula is raising institutional capital for the mass production of our headsets. We're also soliciting angel investors who might be interested in alpha testing our Review Unit headsets (helping us form a bridge to our institutional round). More details on this below.
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$100K in 4 months: A niche app's path to App Store success
Updated January 23, 2026 | Mobile App Performance Tests | Analyzed by Alex Chen, UX Specialist From a Mobile App Developer's Perspective At Endloop, we've
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Surviving Your First Year
For startups the primary goals for that first year are to, 1) set up the company, 2) build and launch your product, and, 3) survive. Here's how to do it.
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Introducing Exclusive Features to GitLab.com Bronze, Silver and Gold Plans
New features are coming exclusively to GitLab.com paid plans – find out why and how to upgrade.
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Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Bending Spoons S.p.A. (NASDAQ: BSP) has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
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Bootstrapped Wingify moves to a bigger office and hits 1600+ customers
Read the Wingify blog to get the most updated tips & industry best practices on CRO, customer engagement, & user experience.
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Diane Greene’s Advice for Founders [video]
Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. This is her talk from the 2017 Female Founders Conference. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcript Jessica Livingston – I’m here to introduce our next speaker, who’s one of my just…
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Founder Stories: Tracy Young of PlanGrid (YC W12)
PlanGrid founders Tracy Young, Kenny Stone, Ryan Sutton-Gee and Ralph Gootee Tracy Young is the founder and CEO ofPlanGrid [http://www.plangrid.com/en], an app that lets construction companies store blueprints and documents on mobile devices. Since going through the YC’s Winter 2012 batch, PlanGrid has grown from a…
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Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies
The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...
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Leap Spins out of YC
In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…
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Don't Follow Your Passion: A Smarter Way to Find a Product to Sell
Find your niche in eight clear steps. Go from evaluating your passions and skills to validating demand and testing—all before you fully commit.
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