Ask most venture-backed founders why they get 10x more equity than employee #1, 100x more equity than employee #5, and 1000x more equity than employee #15, and you'll get the same answer: "I'M TAKING SO MUCH RISK, IT'S SO HARD TO START A COMPANY, I MADE
How I learned the old truth that when building a software product and selling it to people, "building" is just the beginning. And often, it's the easiest part.
Four years after starting TinyPilot from scratch, I’ve sold the company and handed complete control over to a new owner.
Healthchecks.io launched in July 2015, which means this year we turn 9. Time flies! Previous status updates: In 2018, My One-person SaaS Side Project Celebrates its Third Birthday In 2021, Healthchecks Turns 6, Status Update Money Healthchecks.io currently has 652 paying customers, and the monthly recurring revenue is…
A rant-focused guide to founding a GmbH in Germany: 16 steps including Transparenzregister and Rundfunkbeitrag, with tips to avoid common bureaucracy.
Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
As founder-friendly as VCs claim to be, they remain investment professionals. Many first-time founders are oblivious to this nuance, and are in for a rude awakening when they start their raise.
And by "all," I mean everything: core product, failed pivots, miscellaneous
YC is no longer an exclusive club where membership signals legitimacy—it’s becoming a broad index of tech startups.
A retrospective of an eight-year stint.
I worked at Airplane, an internal tooling startup, for nearly two years. Earlier this year, it was announced that the company was being acquired by Airtable and that the product would be shut down. In this blog post, I want to explain what happened from my perspective as a former employee.
"I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. In fact they were one of the reasons we started it," writes PG.
Chronicles of training strong LLMs from scratch in the wild
My takeaways from selling TinyPilot
Learn how liquidation preferences and drag-along rights can leave startup founders with zero payout—even in a half-billion dollar exit
〰️ it’s weird to look back; I sometimes get confused on how I got here 〰️ Most folks dream of being an entrepreneur; “a path that seemed inevitable“, they say. None of that shit applies to me. I’m only here cause I kept getting laid off and that nonsense infuriated me. I treated my first ... Read more
Ramblings about common free trial lengths and time-to-convert.
Breakneck is the ultimate SaaS Starter Kit for .net developers. Lettings you focus on your business instead of boilerplate code.
A week ago I got invited to an “innovation hero” award ceremony at a government agency.
Arc is our company-building immersion for pre-seed and seed stage companies. This framework outlines three distinct archetypes of PMF which help you understand your product’s place in the market and determine how your company operates.
A demonstration of power by Silicon Valley’s top startup accelerator.
Notes about startups, AI, health-care and overall engineering
I spent most of my free time after work over the last month working on a project and today I'm giving up.
uglify the UI for non-paying consumers
When we started Segment , we knew nothing about business finance. My background was in aerospace engineering, and my co-founders came from computer science and design. Beyond the hilariously overcomplicated spreadsheet we used to manage grocery bills as roommates, we really had no experience in finance when we started…
