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Our Experience with Stripe Atlas
What its like to start a company with Stripe Atlas
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Lessons for Early Stage Founders
In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were unique to our own special snowflake of a founding journey. I chalked it up to us being new grads and first-time founders.
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Startup Hiring 101: A Founder's Guide
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
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Why I don’t usually meet startups in person (2019)
The other day, I tweeted. “Contrarian perspective here – it’s ok to *not* meet a founder in person before deciding to invest.” This set off a tweet firestorm — mostly …
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Emotional debt in startups
Three to four years into my startup journey our then CTO Sunil introduced me to a term called “technical debt”. He explained that we would have to account some time to make changes to the product that won’t be seen by customers but that would support us in the long run. I was furious. How […]
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A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee (2016)
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon’s first employee. Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing the often untold stories of early employees at tech companies. Shel Kaphan was the first employee at Amazon. He is currently pursuing personal interests and still living in Seattle. Discussed: Getting…
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Starting a Business Around GPT-3 Is a Bad Idea
(Update 2023-03: I wrote this in 2020 when GPT-3 was highly hyped, but ultimately made only <1% of the splash that the monstrous ChatGPT made 3 years later. If I had to rewrite this today, I’d 1) think more kindly about defensibility, especially through deep product, user experience, and marketing/distribution (see…
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A Brief Guide to Startup Pivots
Most of the times, startup don't work. At some point it may make sense to either (1) give up on your original product and to sell the company, (2) shut down what you are doing and return money to investors, or (3) to pivot. You can read more on making the decision to give up in a future article. This post focuses on…
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True product-market fit is a minimum viable company
Hi, I’m Ann. I was one of the first investors in Lyft, Refinery29, and Xamarin. I have been on the Midas List for the past 3 years and was…
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The Unspoken Hard Bits of Bootstrapping a SaaS Product to Life
The challenges that I’ve faced as a bootstrapped founder simply aren’t the ones that are commonly talked about. Here's where I've struggled.
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Every single step I took to get my side project to $1k/month
Bookmark manager, task manager, notes, and files together in one elegant, customizable desktop.
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My startup validation process
Leading UK expert on innovation & startup validation. Transform ideas into validated, investable businesses with proven methodologies.
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Amazon Is Allowing a Chinese Knock-Off to Destroy Our Startup
I’m the inventor of BeltBro.com, a no-buckle belt that uses just 2 belt loops to hold up pants and shorts. I developed this belt because I…
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Ross Intelligence is shutting down after lawsuit from Thomson Reuters
We have made the difficult decision to shut down operations at ROSS Intelligence. As of Monday of this week, we have no longer been accepting new customers. As of January 31, 2021, the ROSS platform will no longer be available. Between now and then, our priority is to help our current customers transition to other…
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Prisma Raises $12M Series A
Prisma raised $12M in Series A funding to keep building the next generation of database tools for application developers.
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Remote Work: Hiring, recruiting, and essential tools
This is the first part of a two part masterclass on remote work, now live here: 01:46 Meet Shogun, the e-commerce page builder 02:58 They started fully remote as a side project that became...
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I got 400 signups with a video of a product that didn’t exist
In this blog post, I would like to show you a practical example of a “fake it till you make it” approach to product development. To my mind, it basically means that you are trying to stay a few steps ahead of your current situation. You are “faking” the idea that you have progressed more, but you actually haven’t…
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An Email got us $5k in AWS Credits
The story of our company's most valuable email.
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How to spin your scientific research out of a university and into a startup
This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. At YC, we’ve funded more than 75 companies in this situation. We also recently went on a Bio Tour [https://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-bio-tour-2020/] where we went around to research…
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State of Independent SaaS
The State of Independent SaaS is our annual survey and benchmark report covering the insights you need to know in the Bootstrapped SaaS sector. Get data to help you make decisions about how to build and grow a successful software business.