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A New Codecademy
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy
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Applying to YC
One of the most common misconceptions startups have about applying to Y Combinator is thinking that they are too early or too late. We have funded companies with only an idea; we’ve funded...
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YC Hacks – August 2-3
We’re hosting a hackathon this summer at YC in Mountain View. Our goal is to give smart hackers an excuse to get together and spend time building something they find interesting. We don’t have a theme—we want to leave it open to any good ideas. The hackathon will start Saturday, August 2 at noon, and end August 3 in…
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A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup
As you think about holiday gifts this season, I’d like to warn you about the subscription service Whimseybox. This is also a cautionary…
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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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Startups from 2010: Acquired, Pivoted or Still Going?
Editor's Note: This is one of the longest posts I've made - in length and duration. It's said that one year in the life of a startup is the equivalent of dog years when compared to more established co
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Buffer raises $3.5M
We’re excited to make this the most transparent fundraise done to date. This post is an overview of why we're raising $3.5m in funding.
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CircleCI raises $6m Series A
The CircleCI blog is your home for DevOps, continuous integration and delivery, and engineering productivity. Explore tutorials, guides, and best practices.
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Diversity and Startups
Sexism in tech is real. One of the most insidious things happening in the debate is people claiming versions of “other industries may have problems with sexism, but our industry doesn’t.” Both men and women claim this, even though it keeps getting harder to do in the face of shocks like the Tinder texts. We know there…
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My Startup, a Retrospective
Two years of OpenCNAM, my Caller ID API startup: the weekend MVP, the Django to Flask rewrite, the cold emails that won customers, and my mistakes.
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New RFS: One Million Jobs
We want to fund companies that have the potential to create a million jobs. There are a lot of areas where it makes sense to divide labor between humans and computers—we are very good at some things computers are terrible at and vice versa—and some of these require huge amounts of human resources. This is both good…
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Songza is Joining Google
With the YouTube Music app, enjoy over 100 million songs at your fingertips, plus albums, playlists, remixes, music videos, live performances, covers, and hard-to-find music you can’t get anywhere else.
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Startup advice: cold recruiting
Recruiting outside of your personal network