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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups
You should be multi-faceted, never work purely to your technical abilities, think about how you can make your entire company better
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Vinod Khosla with Sam Altman on How to Build the Future [video]
Vinod Khosla [https://twitter.com/vkhosla] is the founder of Khosla Ventures [https://www.khoslaventures.com/], a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Previously he was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC…
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The Startup Empathy Dilemma: As power and impact grow, empathy diminishes
I remember the early days at my startup almost a decade ago. It was just me and my co-founder and we were enjoying our journey of building a small product and making a few people’s lives a bit better. The empathy we had for our early customers, for each other and for the first people […]
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Pioneer manipulates scores to pick winners
Pioneer paints a pretty picture of a fair tournament for ambitious people of the world. In reality though, the organizers will manipulate…
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Intern at a YC Company
If you’re an ambitious undergrad or graduate student with an engineering background, YC can help you get an internship at a YC-backed company. You apply once, and your profile will be sent to over 50 YC startups that are looking for summer interns. The 50 companies participating in our Work at a Startup…
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Which Categories of Seed Startups Are Thriving? Which Aren't?
Discover which seed-stage sectors are booming in 2019: AI startups grew from 0 to 400, Blockchain surged 200x, while FinTech & Food tech show exponential growth.
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YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues
We’re delighted to announce that YC is hosting online office hours for founders of startups and nonprofits that are solving climate issues on Tuesday, September 24. If you’re in the early stages of building a company we’d love to meet you — anyone from idea stage through Series A and any sized nonprofit is welcome to…
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Software markets and businesses are 10x bigger due to the internet
Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned.
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YC Fall Hackathon 2019
This November we’re hosting a hackathon at YC. You can find out more about the event and apply here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/236]. Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward. The top team will get a YC interview and the top three teams…
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Shopify: A StarCraft Inspired Business Strategy
How CEO Tobi Lütke Applied StarCraft Gaming Strategies & Concepts To Build Shopify
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Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
By turning code into brilliant solutions that improve people’s lives, app developers have the power to positively impact the world. At Apollo, we want to help developers help the world .To do that, we’re tackling the hardest problem in app development: data management.
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Starting a Business with a Co-Founder: Economics and Control
Discuss these two things before the business makes money. Make decisions on the important, specific issues raised by this post.
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The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
Why we decided to combine version control with CI, and the rise of the single application.
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Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018)
Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious was: How do we fund
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Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
The Start of Our Company Hard Lessons Learned Some Solid Advice What's Next for Us? My brother, Justin, was an engineer at Google, and I was a data
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A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
An overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
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Leap Spins out of YC
In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…
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How Old Are Successful Tech Entrepreneurs? (2018)
A definitive new study dispels the myth of the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
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Startup Growth and Venture Returns
If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.
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Hiring Is Obsolete (2005)
May 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Berkeley CSUA.) The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?…
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Here’s Why Juicero’s Press is So Expensive
Hidden away in Juicero’s bad week of press is one of the most powerful lessons we preach to hardware startups: unconstrained development is lethal. Last week Bloomberg published an article exposing how easy it is to “hack” Juicero’s produce packs by squeezing them with your hands, deeming the $69