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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs?
A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
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What Startups Really Mean by “Why Should We Hire You?”
We take this and other standard questions, translate their subtext, and provide you with the best approach to help you land the job.
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The Benefits of Thinking Small (2010)
In previous posts I wrote about visionary entrepreneurs, and how to constantly ask how you can 10X your business. However, many startups fail because the founding team thinks *too big* from day one, and doesn't take the time to really define the short term, immediate value their product or business provides.
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Companies from the YC Summer 2018 Batch
At YC, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 16 of the companies who recently announced that they’re part of the YC Summer 2018 batch. See more companies from the S18 batch here [https://blog.ycombinator.com/15-companies-s2018/], here…
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Unequal Cofounders
One of the big myths in Silicon Valley is that co-founders should be equal. However, if you look at the most successful tech startups of the last 50 years, almost all of them had a dominant co-founder for most of the life of the company. This includes[1]:
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Luck and startups: Our journey
To make money and acquire users in the startup world, you need lightning to strike, a rare moment of sheer luck that propels your company towards success. So how can tech founders cope with this randomness? In this post, I'll share my tips on making your own lightning. Luck and
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Rejected Then Recruited: Our Journey into Y Combinator
"The intoxicating delight of sudden understanding"1 best describes what I felt the first time I derived the Y Combinator (guided by the Little Schemer book). Learning Lisp (by way of Scheme) is how I first came about Paul Graham's essays. Which was, of course, a gateway drug to startups. Since then, Y Combinator (the…
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How to Beat Amazon
You can’t build a consumer brand in 2018 and ignore the 800-pound-gorilla that is Amazon.
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Sales results from getting 3M views on YouTube
How getting your subscription box covered on a popular YouTube channel is not necessarily a shortcut to riches.
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How to make your first sales hire – a guide for SaaS startups
Here's the reality: Your first sales hire is the most important non-executive growth hire you will make. But most B2B startups have no clue what they're looking for in making this hire—much less how to find them.
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Applications for YC W19 Are Open
Applications for YC Winter 2019 are now open. Apply here [http://www.ycombinator.com/apply/]. Here are some helpful resources if you’re thinking about applying: * Why Apply? [https://www.ycombinator.com/why/] * YC Bio [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio/]: A new way for us to fund early-stage life science companies…
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Benchmarks for Startup Spend and Cash Burn
Exclusive analysis of business spend on Brex and fresh finance insights.
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Companies from the YC Winter 2018 Batch
At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 12 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of the YC Winter 2018 batch so far: Buglife [https://www.buglife.com/] is a mobile SDK and web platform for reporting bugs and collecting feedback in mobile apps…
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Series A Fundraising Guide
If you raised a Seed round, sooner or later you’ll be fundraising – again
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Guide to Angel Investing
I’ve been dabbling in startup investing for a few years now. Nothing extraordinary, and I’ve definitely not made it a career, but I have developed a guide of sorts that I follow when ma…
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Pivot or Fail?
The Pivot is celebrated in startup land. Huge successes like Twitter and Slack are all the results of pivots. So surely pivoting is a good thing, right? Well, I am not so sure. And I certainly don’t want entrepreneurs to think that pivoting is the right thing to do when their original idea fails. It […]
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Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies
The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...
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The Next 10 Years Will Be About “Market-Networks”
Market-networks will produce a new class of unicorn companies and impact how millions of service professionals will work and earn their living.
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How Backblaze Got Started (2017)
You may have a great idea for a business, but ideas are cheap. Will your solution connect with customers? Here's the story of how we started Backblaze.