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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,603 posts.
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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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Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)
When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…
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Is Y Combinator worth it?
Back in late 2016, I started Armory [Http://www.armory.io]in my garage (pictured above) with my two co-founders. We also applied to Y Combinator. I often…
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Build your fanbase using the K-pop method
Every successful startup needs a fanbase. To build one, learn from the masters.
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It’s Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done [audio]
Sam Chaudhary [https://twitter.com/samchaudhary_] is the cofounder and CEO of ClassDojo [https://www.classdojo.com/]. They’ve raised $30M and have 30 employees. Karen Lien [https://twitter.com/karenlien03] is an Edtech Principal here at YC…
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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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You’re Just the Founder
At times VC’s forget who their business is built on. Nice Car Last week in a car showroom of all places I ran into a VC who I hadn’t seen in ten years. He had sat on the board of my last company an…
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Build a Business, Not an Audience
If you’re reading this, I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the following pattern over and over again:
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If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true
Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of your assumptions are no longer true. You need to stop coding, building, recruitin…
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How I killed app sales by going freemium
Why going freemium may not be the best idea for your app
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How to sell if your user is not the buyer
Example: Dev = user; CTO = buyer
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Why Build Toys
I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way...
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Fastly acquires Glitch
Fastly is thrilled to announce it has acquired Glitch, with plans to continue fostering one of the most beloved developer communities on the web today.
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Stripe Atlas: the first five years and 20k startups
In the past five years, over 20,000 businesses have started with Stripe Atlas and have generated over $3 billion in revenue. We surveyed 1,000 founders—here’s what we found.
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Founding Stories Are Myths
Founding Stories Ignore The Most Important Parts of Starting a Business
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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition
Photo by psiaki Based on the title of this post you might be thinking I have mad stacks of money in the bank. That I’ve had a few “exits” and instead of hunkering down and writing code for 6 months I opted to talk to a few of my buddies at the yacht club and purchase a primed and growing s
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