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 .
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...
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...
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…
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…
Full Stack Startups
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
App store shenanigans
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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…
Looking back on SaaS product strategy
Looking back on how we chose what to build over the years.
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.
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...
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing
Sneak peek at future of SaaS investing — Tiny Capital and Buffer
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…
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
How to Build a Biotech
You’re intrigued by biotech and want to explore ideas in the area. Where do you start?
Iceland: The emerging tech-ecosystem of the Nordics
An overlooked part of the Nordic tech-ecosystem