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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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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Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?
Self-examination for Seed and Series A startups
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Raising money for StackOverflow
A few people heard me on This Week in Startups (starting at 15:45) asking Jason if we should take money from the first VC who fell into our laps, or spend time doing the Sand Hill Road rounds, meet…
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A Stroll Through the Craigslist-Crusher Startup Graveyard
I’ve been thinking about hopeful Craigslist-crushing startups this weekend as a result of all the Padmapper drama over the past few days. Padmapper is my #1 site for apartment hunting and I really sincerely hope that Craig and Jim will at least consider coming to some sort of agreement that is beneficial to both. Even…
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The things first time founders do…
Last week @robfitz asked me on short notice to join a panel at #foundersexchange about what first time founders shouldn’t do. I qu...
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Post-mortem of a Dead-on-Arrival SaaS Product
My side-business Marginalia has not done well so I decided to put it out to pasture.
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The idea maze
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The Hard Raise
In the summer of 2003, Brad Burnham and I set out to raise a $100mm early stage venture capital fund. We had both been successful VCs in other firms and we had a thesis that the second wave of the Internet was upon us and that large networks were going to get built in this […]
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‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups
You should be multi-faceted, never work purely to your technical abilities, think about how you can make your entire company better
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What's working for YC companies since the AI boom
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.
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Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup
Blueleaf is building the world’s first truly personal financial planning platform. It’s a complex product with a lot of features to meet all the different problems that our customer discovery has...
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How I grew my Shopify micro-SaaS
11 key learnings and mistakes from our journey
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Epitaph for an Entrepreneur - Balancing Family and Work
For the next few months I’ll be posting a series of posts on family, startup culture and careers. These vignettes are about how I’ve lived my life trying to make my dent in the universe and trying …
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The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup
A surprisingly generous sharing of ideas (and the actual deck) from a successful fund-raise.
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Why Has Andreessen Horowitz Raised $2.7B in 3 Years?
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The