At Y Combinator, founders decide when they want to announce that they’re part of the program. Meet 12 of the companies who have announced that they’re part of the YC Winter 2018 batch so far: Buglife [https://www.buglife.com/] is a mobile SDK and web platform for reporting bugs and collecting feedback in mobile apps…
Shutting down an S-Corp is complicated.
Apple and Tesla share some similarities. Both companies possess remarkably strong brands, loyal customer bases, and products capable of maintaining that loyalty. Each also has a visionary product leader. Apple has Jony Ive while Tesla has Elon Musk. Accordingly, some have concluded
Set up WeChat Pay and AliPay as a foreigner in China: linking a foreign card, loading and transferring RMB, and paying by QR code without cash.
If you raised a Seed round, sooner or later you’ll be fundraising – again
Since former BCG consultant Clayton Christensen first used the term "disruptive innovation" in 1995, nimble startups have challenged incumbents in every field from music to manufacturing. Now, a tectonic disruption is hitting management consulting just as it has hit many other industries.
Fractal GTM frameworks, big ideas, and narrative techniques
This is the definitive guide to video encoding. Learn everything you need to know about encoding, transcoding, compression & video codecs all in one place.
A decade ago, we entered the current era of notebook design when Steve Jobs pulled the future out of an envelope.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.
Development of fusion power, a carbon-free, combustion-free source of energy, is now on a faster track toward realization, thanks to a collaboration between MIT and a new private company, Commonwealth Fusion Systems. CFS will join with MIT to carry out rapid, staged research leading to a new generation of fusion…
I’ve been dabbling in startup investing for a few years now. Nothing extraordinary, and I’ve definitely not made it a career, but I have developed a guide of sorts that I follow when ma…
The Pivot is celebrated in startup land. Huge successes like Twitter and Slack are all the results of pivots. So surely pivoting is a good thing, right? Well, I am not so sure. And I certainly don’t want entrepreneurs to think that pivoting is the right thing to do when their original idea fails. It […]
GitLab.com is migrating to Google Cloud Platform August 11 – here’s what this means for you now and in the future.
Of the $2 billion spent on the Manhattan Project, where did it go, and what does it tell us about how we should talk about the history of the bomb?
The Senate hearing about Facebook was a bigger deal than it might have seemed, both because it happened and because of what was said.
The map above shows the headquarter locations of the top 101 Y Combinator Companies by valuation as of October 2018. Note Strikingly is headquartered in Shanghai China and not Sunnyvale as originally published. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to the vast majority of companies (74 73 out of...
This update converts some effects to use the GPU for rendering, resulting in huge performance gains. Copy/Paste can now be performed on selections, Bicubic resampling is now available for the Move …
Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl S…
The fall of Facebook has nothing to do with people quitting the service…
The next billion users are not becoming more like us. We are becoming more like them.
