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The most popular blog posts about startups on Hacker News. 160 posts.

2014
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Make Things and Show Them

We’ve often been asked to make a section of Hacker News that’s just for Show HNs, so we did. We’rereleasing it today [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984826], along with a new set ofShow HN guidelines [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]. In late 2008 and early 2009, users submitting their work to Hacker…

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Intern at a YC Company

Would you like to intern at a YC company this summer? We’re helping place paid interns at YC-backed companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Optimizely and others. You’ll get: * A chance to work with one of Silicon Valley’s most exciting companies * An invitation to YC’s intern conference Please fill outour application…

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My Experience at YC Hacks

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. At 33 years old, I knew I’d probably be older than the vast majority of the 400+ people attending Y Combinator’s first YC Hacks hackathon. But other than that, I didn’t have many expectations. YC Hacks was my first real hackathon. Many years ago, I went to the …

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YC Investment Policy and Email List

We’re making a change to the rule for YC partners making follow-on investments. Previously, partners could invest in companies after they had either raised $500k or 3 weeks after Demo Day. This reduced a lot of the conflict and signaling issues, but not enough—partners investing during the batch still caused issues…