Why Startup Hubs Work
October 2011 If you look at a list of US cities sorted by population, the number of successful startups per capita varies by orders of magnitude. Somehow it's as if most places were sprayed with startupicide. I wondered about this for years. I could see the average town was like a roach motel for startup ambitions…
Angry Bird’s “overnight success” only took 8 years.
by Paul Hontz
Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
I started investing in startups with the assumption that I don't know what I'm doing (which is always true), but that the only way to actual...
Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
Photo by earthlightbooks This is a guest article by Saba Younus. Saba currently works as the operations manager (Sumo) at AppSumo . When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup worl
Life at a startup
As a child, I had read about the Homebrew Computer Club, where Osborne and Apple were born - and I wanted to be part of a big movement like that ever since. When I first heard about Y Combinator I thought here was something happening right now that might be looked back on in the same way. I worked my way through the…
Lessons from GitHub's First Year
The end of the year is a great time to sit down with a glass of your favorite beverage, dim the lights, snuggle up next to the fire and think about what you’ve learned over the past twelve months.
Why I Quit My Job to Start a Tech Company
Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter .
Startup Suicide -- Rewriting the Code
The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code wr…
Startup Idea: User Retention as a Service
An in-depth blog post talking user retention and lifecycle email marketing for startups.
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