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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 122 posts.
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Why Founders Fail To Market Their Products
Founders predictably underestimate the importance of hiring marketers. Here’s why many startups don’t get round to marketing their product…
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Why your startup should be a Delaware C-Corp, not an LLC
LLC vs C Corps. Get valuable insights and learn how to protect your business from unwanted legal liabilities. Be ahead of the competition.
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The life and death of a startup
At DjangoCon Europe 2017 , and again at DjangoCon US 2017 , I gave a talk entitled “Autopsy of a slow train wreck: The life and death of a Django startup”. After I gave those presentations, a number of people requested that I publish the content in blog form so they could share it with colleagues.
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Pitching your early-stage startup
Tell your company’s story more effectively, including specific details that matter to investors.
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The Decline of Investment in San Francisco Startups
Data analysis reveals 50% drop in San Francisco startup funding, with Series C & D rounds falling 66-75%. Key insights on shifting venture capital trends in 2016-17.
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New research indicates ‘Unicorns’ are overvalued
New research examines fair market value of startups worth over $1 billion and finds huge discrepancies in their purported worth.
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Stripe opens its Atlas program to US-based startups
We're excited to roll out a bunch of improvements to Stripe Atlas today.
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Climbing the wrong hill (2009)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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The CTO Journey at a Small Startup
As a co-founder and CTO, here's how my role has changed over the years.
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Read This Before You Build Uber for X
Sam is a cofounder of PocketSuite (YC W16). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We still hear it all the time: “I’m building the Uber for X.” That idea – an app that lets consumers get a specific service when they need it, while giving service professionals (“pros”)…
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Request for Startups: Water
We’re optimistic we will beat climate change. But, at the same time, we need to prepare for things to get worse. One area we think a lot about is water—natural fresh supplies could be at serious risk around the world. We’re close to a tipping point where technology will let us make clean water extremely abundant and…
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The Merge
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced...
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How to Get Your First 1,000 Customers
There are a variety of methods to attract your first 1,000 customers, but launching with the press is my favorite. I’ll explain why and how to do it.
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Candy Japan 2017 Year in Review
This was another tough year for Candy Japan, with many factors combining to a sharp decline in subscriber numbers. Contains revenue numbers, site statistics and learnings from 2017.
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Lessons Learned with Stripe Subscriptions
Monitor agents, cron jobs, websites, APIs, and everything in between. Jobs, uptime checks, heartbeats, status pages and analytics in one tool.
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Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
Read the latest company announcements, partnership news, and press highlights here.
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Amazon, Facebook and Google can all be beaten
Even the greatest companies can only do three things well at a time.