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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 New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup
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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How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit
This is a copy/paste of an email I sent to 500 Startups Founders & Mentors email distros. Another reason why you should join our program – I will fill you...
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The Y Combinator Startup Index
In a former life I served as Editor of Seattle 2.0, and one of the most popular pieces of content we produced was the Seattle 2.0 Index – a monthly ranked...
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Ideas for Startups (2005)
October 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School. ) How do you get good ideas for startups ? That's probably the number one question people ask me. I'd like to reply with another question: why do people think it's hard to come up with ideas for startups? That might seem a stupid thing to ask…
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To predict the future 1/3 of you need to be crazy
In a rapidly changing world those who copy the past have doomed their future. When companies or agencies search for disruptive and innovative strategies they often assemble a panel of experts to ad…
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Full Stack Startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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App store shenanigans
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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A Guide to PR for Startups
You’ve built your product and you’re now ready for your first major launch. Or you’ve been through a launch or two, but are looking to scale the process as you’re doing more launches and announcements. You really have two options: do it all on your own, or work with a PR agency. One frequent crossroad is that you’re…
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Looking back on SaaS product strategy
Looking back on how we chose what to build over the years.
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Unbundling Airbnb
There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is to unbundle. So the idea behind unbundling of Airbnb is simple: Pick a niche use case with passionate but unsatisfied guests and then build a business around it.
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Zombie VCs
This post uses publicly available data on Crunchbase and has elicited a strong response from the tech community in general. I am making corrections as I re...
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Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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How I'm Bootstrapping a Startup While Raising Three Kids
I just read Jason Calacanis's post about whether or not it's possible to have a baby and do a startup at the same time and thought it might be interesting to share my perspective as I'm a serial entrepreneur, I'm currently bootstrapping my latest web startup, AppIgnite , and I have three little kids (Colby-6, Isabel-4…
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Pmarca: If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
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How to Build a Biotech
You’re intrigued by biotech and want to explore ideas in the area. Where do you start?
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Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics
An overlooked part of the Nordic tech-ecosystem