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Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,552 posts.
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The Forgotten Yahoo Project That Inspired Two Recently Funded Startups
IFTTT and Zapier are getting a lot of attention but they're really just a reinvention of Yahoo! Pipes.
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Launch an App
On May 14th, I launched Oh Bother — my first independent app in 7 years. I wrote a bit about my decision to build Oh Bother here, but now that my little app ...
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The SaaS Metrics That Matter
Plus now you can easily generate them using our secret sauce SaaSGrid.
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If you build it, they won't come, unless...
A/B tests and accumulating Twitter followers is not a marketing strategy, just as "we'll use salt and cheese" isn't a recipe.
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Applying to YC as a Single Founder
In a comment I made on Hacker News , I expressed my desire to write an article about the differences and misconceptions between being a single-founder and having co-founders. This is not that article, but it is related. The application for YC W12 is open, and in response to my comment I received a few emails asking…
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My Startup, a Retrospective
Two years of OpenCNAM, my Caller ID API startup: the weekend MVP, the Django to Flask rewrite, the cold emails that won customers, and my mistakes.
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How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups
Samvit Jain writes on startups, the tech industry, machine learning, and what he has learned along the way.
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My startup journey
How I “failed” at a YC startup, worked at early Stripe, and then raised $20M
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Product Market Fit
Kevin Lin builds tools for humans and agents.
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How I Used Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to Validate my Startup Idea
I am a big fan this whole “minimum viable product” philosophy. I’ve probably adapted it to my own interpretation, but basically I look at it as bootstrapping on crack, get your pr…
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Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
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Signs you're about to be acquired (2020)
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…
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Do things that don't require scale
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Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink
"Which one of you is going to be doing the fundraising?" queried a calm and collected Tom Robinson while in a loud venue one Saturday evening at a Startup School after-party. Tom had good reason to be relaxed that evening. His startup, 280 North, had been acquired by Motorola for 20 Million a few mo
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How the Canadian Tech Scene Encourages Finite Gameplay
Toronto is not the next great startup scene. Neither is Waterloo, or Vancouver, or anywhere in Canada. I’m sorry that I have to write this. I really am. I want it to work. But the growing cho…
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How to Make Wealth
May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters .) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years. The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but what happens in one is very…
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Five years as a startup CTO: How, why, and was it worth it? (2024)
CTO as a Service / Fractional CTO by Sergey Khaladzinski2025155 points114 commentsCareer & Management details
I can't believe it's been five years since my last post… Five years since I decided to join an early stage startup as the CTO / "the tech guy". Five years since I took my last train
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Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks
Someone once told me hardware is hard...
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Why Slight Failed: A Slight Post-Mortem
My best guesses as to why our early stage data startup failed. This isn’t a retrospective, but something closer to advice for past me. Or maybe just exorcism.