It dawned on me today. Maybe most software fails. Not in the sense that “it eventually dies after a long and respectable life.” In the sense that it never actually achieves flight, never catches on, never produces more value that it cost to develop.
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I think the past 4 months have been the busiest of my life. We wrapped up YC's winter funding cycle, hosted Startup School for more than 700 people, conducted interviews for the summer funding cycle,...
When starting a SaaS business you eventually arrive at the challenge of pricing and packaging. Many great articles have been written on the subject, we've read them all, and still we missed the mark. Here's our thoughts on version 2.0.
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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…
Almost exactly one year ago I quit my job to create a Haskell startup as a solo developer. I had about 20 ideas, but eventually settled on the idea of dependency project health tracking with Deadpendency.
News, product updates, and conversations shaping the future of digital value from Macropod and the people building the next generation of payments.
When It’s Darkest Men See the Stars Ralph Waldo Emerson This Thanksgiving it might seem that there’s a lot less to be thankful for. One out of ten of Americans is out of work. The common wisdom say…
Fundraising questions for startups: 1. Why do you need investment? 2. What does your service do? 3. Is there any competition? 4. Can you...
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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An intense debate about business models, bubbles, capitalism, quality of life, market share vs. profit share, running a business vs. selling a business, and a variety of other related topics from episode 46 of This Week in Startups. This is really good stuff. (There’s 47 minutes of mater…
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 …
