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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,552 posts.
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Users
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
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Ups and downs of a side project
Reflections from a 4-year side project journey.
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When to kill your startup
I’m Ryan Carson, and I’ve been a Founder CEO for 20 years, building, scaling and selling three companies.
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How to design a referral program
Above: Dropbox’s innovative growth initiative — A referral program to give/get storage
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Startups: The Very Beginning
This was the talk I gave at Y Combinator's Future Founders Conference for women. I've given a lot of advice to startups over the past 15 years, but today I'm going to focus on just the advice...
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A Fundraising Survival Guide
August 2008 Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. The hardest part is making something people want: most startups that die, die because they didn't do that. But the second biggest cause of death is probably the difficulty of raising money. Fundraising is brutal. One reason it's so brutal is…
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The default state of a startup is failure
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Market is the most important factor in a startup's success or failure (2007)
An archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen’s now defunct blog
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I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months
A business report from a 3D printing enthusiast
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If it's a nice problem to have, don't solve it now
ALEXISTOGEL menyediakan slot gacor situs resmi terpercaya yang emang sudah terbukti kasih kemenangan besar tanpa ribet. dan fokus pada pengalaman main yang asyik dan adil, ditambah transaksi online secepat kilat.
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Starting a Bank
I often get asked something along the line of, “If you weren’t leading Automattic, what would you work on?” There’s not a single answer to this question; the answer changes day to day. But I think …
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How To Survive a Ground-Up Rewrite
Smart people tell you never, ever to rewrite an entire system from scratch. They're right. But if you do, here are tips that will help.
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Competition is not market validation
How to not fall into the fallacy of seeing competition as a proof of Product-Market Fit
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Ten Weeks with Y Combinator’s Startup School
In early March 2017, I found out that Y Combinator had announced its first online startup school. That really made me happy, since we’ve…
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Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future
How did you go bankrupt?” Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises Every disruptive technology since the fire and the wheel have forced leaders to adapt or di…
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What I Learned Going Through YC as a 17 Year Old
This post has been edited to include (under Additional Thoughts) friends and acquaintances who have helped me immensely on my journey.
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Why Quora is in trouble
Browse 46 free 8 bit GIFs. Download and share them on GIFDB.com — works in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, X and more.
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How Generalised Problems Kill Startups
It’s crazy how often I hear founders say ‘I think the problem we’re really solving is X’. Hang on a second… You ‘think’? The surprising…
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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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Looking Back on Selling Gravatar to Automattic
For an entrepreneur, the line between horrible mistake and runaway success can be so thin that even Kate Moss would be envious. I lived with Gravatar for nearly four years before that line even became thick enough to measure.
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