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How I’ve Attracted the First 500 Paid Users for My SaaS
You Don’t Have To Get Covered on Large Blogs, Why Churn Rate is Surprisingly Low, Spend a Lot of Time At User Forum, etc..
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How to Get Startup Ideas
November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others…
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We need a middle class for startups
Idea: Make Mittelstands cool in America. Rebrand the US Middle Market. Create a studio and fund to build and buy Mittelstands.
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Nokia acquired by Microsoft
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What I'd tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years
Blog by Ben Dixon, Co-founder of Sona, about startups, elixir, AI, climbing and photography
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Tailscale raises $100M
We’ve raised $100M in a Series B financing led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from our existing major investors: Accel, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital, along with a cast of many prominent angels and smaller investors.
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My solopreneur story
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
When good ideas make bad business
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YC Startup School 2018: a free, 10-week, online course
We’re hosting Startup School again this year. Startup School is a free, 10-week, online course. It’s designed for any startup founder who would like to get help through the earliest, most difficult challenges of starting a company. The course will begin on August 27, 2018 and applications are now open at…
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The Business of SaaS
Why is SaaS taking over the world? Learn about the SaaS business model, why SaaS businesses work, and how to grow them.
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Going full time on my SaaS after 13 years
In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the i…
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A two-person startup already uses twenty-eight other tools
Stress free and easy shopping experience. Simple and speedy service.
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I was rejected by Codecademy three times, so I built my own
Learn to code with AI-powered tutorials from Codeamigo.
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One-man SaaS, 9 Years In
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers, and the monthly recurring revenue is…
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YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most important, most transformative advice for startups. Whether common sense or counter-intuitive, the guidance below will…
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We replaced rental brokers with software and filled 200 vacant apartments
Check the requirements, book the viewing, let yourself in, and submit your application, all without emails or phone tag.
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I sold Baremetrics
2020 has turned in to one of the most unusual years of my life, for both the obvious reasons but also for reasons I definitely wasn't expecting at the
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Products I Wish Existed
Below is a list of products or startups that I am keeping an eye out for. I skipped listing things I wish existed that can *not* be implemented with today's technology in strong form - for example, the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - although weak forms of this may be possible today.
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Jessica Livingston’s Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail
Read more on Y Combinator's blog.
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Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup
When I first joined a startup in 2012 I did my best to ask the right questions when interviewing. My engineering background prepared me for engineering tasks and helped me write a resume, but it didn’t prepare me well for how to evaluate a startup offer. While this might be obvious to some, this is what I wish I knew…
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Pricing niche products
I recently visited a friend who runs Keycult , a business that designs and sells $500 keyboard kits.
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We turned $140k on Kickstarter into $40k debt and broke even
This is Part 3 of “Making The Contender: Conception to Completion”. Here are links to Part 1 (how we made the game) and Part 2 (how we ran…
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Our $100M Series B
Raising our Series B round of financing
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I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure
I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.
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Welcome Home, Garry Tan
Today we're excited to announce that Garry Tan will be YC's next president and CEO. He is a visionary and builder — having founded the earliest blogging platform and advised hundreds of startups over the last decade.
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