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Most AI startups are doomed
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
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Simple Math to Set Up a Sales Team
How to structure quotas, compensation, and territories for a new sales team.
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YC Hacks – August 2-3
We’re hosting a hackathon this summer at YC in Mountain View. Our goal is to give smart hackers an excuse to get together and spend time building something they find interesting. We don’t have a theme—we want to leave it open to any good ideas. The hackathon will start Saturday, August 2 at noon, and end August 3 in…
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Why Does Your Company Deserve More Money?
The hardest conversation I have to have with a founder is when they’ve spent their 1-2 million dollar angel round but haven’t found product market fit [https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-real-product-market-fit/]. Unfortunately, I have to ask them a very unforgiving question: why does your company deserve more money?…
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ODesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs Guru
Read the latest news and technical tips about Source Code Management, Source Code Hosting, Perforce, SVN and Git.
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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)
April 2008 Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren't more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world.
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Upcoming changes to user limits on Free tier of Gitlab SaaS
5 user limit per top-level group on GitLab SaaS Free tier
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Common data model mistakes made by startups
Data modeling is hard. Here are some missteps to avoid when you're developing your models.
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Requests for Startups Refreshed
We’ve refreshed the Requests for Startups [http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/]. Here are the additions: Food and Farming An estimated 40% of the world’s workforce works in agriculture. Better food and farming could increase the world’s health, unlock the potential of numerous workers, and improve living conditions for…
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Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
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VMware Buys Nicira for $1.26B
Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The
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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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How we built Townie – an app that generates fullstack apps
Like Claude Artifacts, but with a backend and database
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A CEO Who Pays Employees to De-Locate from the Bay
Wade Foster [https://twitter.com/wadefoster] is the CEO of Zapier [https://zapier.com/] (YC S12). Read Zapier’s de-location post here [https://zapier.com/blog/move-away-from-sf-get-remote-job/]. If you are interested in remote work, you can also check out our interview with Gitlab…
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