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From Fusion to Octopart and Back
Stay up to date with all the latest news and information through our blogs, guides, podcasts, articles, interviews and much more.
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Manus will return to operating as an independent company
Visit the Manus blog to learn more about our thoughts on the future.
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Hiring the first head of marketing at a startup
(Spoiler: Don’t)
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Kickstarter Is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics, Probably By Mistake
Given everything out there about Kickstarter’s founding story one gets the impression that the crux of its existence revolves around art and creativity. Just a guess based on that huge banner on their home page. Funding a rock concert in New Orleans and all that . Novellas, art projects, letters, albums, tours, Girl…
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You don’t need to be “enterprise-ready” or “scalable”
Fretting over scaling issues too soon, often means laboriously imagining and lugging product freight from the future. It’s believing that the faint, distorted, mostly unreachable calls of possible features and overnight adoption fears matter more than the asks of the present roadmap. In the following exchange…
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Building the Middle Class of the Creator Economy
The American Dream exists, but what is the reality?
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A New Standard Deal
We are making two changes to our standard deal in conjunction with a recent fundraise. Starting with the Winter 2021 batch, our deal will be $125,000 for 7% equity on a post-money safe, and we will reduce the amount of our pro rata [https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/] right to 4% of subsequent rounds. In the…
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Balsamiq hits $100,000 in revenue
News and announcements from your friends at Balsamiq.
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Pro rata is a bad term for founders
For a long time, I was a strong believer in investor pro ratas. As a founder, I understood the trade and was comfortable with it. As a partner at YC, I thought it made enough sense that I helped...
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The myth of the overnight success
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
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Lovable raises $400M Series C
Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT.
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The “Interview” with Y Combinator That’s Not
So, in our last installment of the Y Combinator saga, we talked about applying. Since a handful of folks will be gearing up for their interviews shortly, it seems a fine time to move on to the next step in our journey.
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Do Not Start A Startup: Or, What I Learned At Startup School 2011
Home page for Andy Brett
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Cash Flow and Destiny
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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Asana
I’m delighted to finally be investing in Asana, which I’ve wanted to do for a long time. One of the things I’ve learned about companies is that 1) clear tasks and goals, 2) clearly communicated,...
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No, that is not a competitive advantage
Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Here's the top, invalid competitive advantages startup founders like to claim.
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Raise less, build more
The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses …