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Cloudflare Raises $150M and Adds to Board of Directors
Founder and co-chair of Nike Foundation, Maria Eitel, and Stan Meresman join Cloudflare board
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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit
An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital
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Born in a Garage
We started a computer company!!! The Oxide Computer Company started in my garage, this is a story about its origins.
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
In 2018, Pew Research Center reported [https://www.pewglobal.org/2019/03/04/u-s-german-relations-methodology-spring-2018-global-attitudes-survey/] that 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents. Since 2013, this number has been as high as 65% — even though…
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Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP
The most underrated Open Core Company out there
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The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea
Most business ideas are neither objectively good nor bad. The quality of an idea for you (as a founder) depends on your goals, your skill set, and your risk tolerance.
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Minimum Viable Personality (2011)
Today we have a special guest post. There have been a few guest posts here at AVC. Maybe a half dozen in total. One of my favorites was this one by JLM during the financial crisis of 2008/2009. But this one today may top that gem. It's from our favorite Giant Robot Dinosaur and it's […]
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Self-serve first: an overlooked paradigm underlying great software companies
“My biggest regret is that our first customer was $1M ACV*,” my friend lamented over coffee the other day. “I wish I could take it back.”
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We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Apple copied it
Discover the story of launching an app. with $500,000 annual run rate—and then Apple killed it and launched a similar feature
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Cooking as a Service
This tweet made me think a lot: First of all, as much as I hate this idea, I think this notion is correct. This trend has been happening for a long time, and it’s going to keep happening. I th…
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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020
Airbnb, Inc. announced today that it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.
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YC Interviews in NYC
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a small number of interviews for the Summer 2019 batch of YC in New York City on February 23. This will be the first in a series of interviews we do in cities outside the Bay Area. We’ll start with New York and will soon announce interview dates for other cities…
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Interesting Tech Markets for 2019
Every year I take a step back and ask if there are common themes in technology.
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The dude that built DudeRanch.com
[orig published in 2019; re-published & updated in 2023 & 2025] The outdoor patio was filled with dude ranchers. It was their yearly conference at Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, and I was there as a vendor (and first-time attendee). I remember saguaro cactus lining the landscape. It was early evening, the sun was…
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Where Have All the Angels Gone?
Angel investing plummets 81% as institutional seed dominates startup funding. New data shows dramatic shift in early-stage venture capital from 2010-2018.
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To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We’re sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019…