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Fundamentals of Product-Market Fit
An excerpt from the Holloway Guide to Raising Venture Capital
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The Growth Stacks of 2019
Explore the latest trends, best practices, and expert tips shaping the future of customer engagement.
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YC's request for startups: Government 2.0
In 2018, Pew Research Center reported [https://www.pewglobal.org/2019/03/04/u-s-german-relations-methodology-spring-2018-global-attitudes-survey/] that 57% of Americans believe that children in America today will be worse off financially than their parents. Since 2013, this number has been as high as 65% — even though…
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We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Apple copied it
Discover the story of launching an app. with $500,000 annual run rate—and then Apple killed it and launched a similar feature
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Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020
Airbnb, Inc. announced today that it expects to become a publicly-traded company during 2020.
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YC Interviews in NYC
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a small number of interviews for the Summer 2019 batch of YC in New York City on February 23. This will be the first in a series of interviews we do in cities outside the Bay Area. We’ll start with New York and will soon announce interview dates for other cities…
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To everything there is a season – Why we're shutting down
8tracks has had a long run and its day in the sun. We’re sad to announce, however, that the company and its streaming service will wind down with the end of the decade, on December 31st, 2019…
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Mattermost Raises $20M Series A Funding
"Secure Slack" offering brings the privacy and compliance benefits of open source to the real-time operations and collaboration needs of DevOps teams.
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Vinod Khosla with Sam Altman on How to Build the Future [video]
Vinod Khosla [https://twitter.com/vkhosla] is the founder of Khosla Ventures [https://www.khoslaventures.com/], a firm focused on assisting entrepreneurs to build impactful new energy and technology companies. Previously he was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial RISC…
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Intern at a YC Company
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…
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YC Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues
We’re delighted to announce that YC is hosting online office hours for founders of startups and nonprofits that are solving climate issues on Tuesday, September 24. If you’re in the early stages of building a company we’d love to meet you — anyone from idea stage through Series A and any sized nonprofit is welcome to…
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YC Fall Hackathon 2019
This November we’re hosting a hackathon at YC. You can find out more about the event and apply here [https://apply.ycombinator.com/events/236]. Applications close on 10/25/19 at 11:59PM PST. We’ll send out the first round of acceptances shortly afterward. The top team will get a YC interview and the top three teams…
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Apollo raises $22M to simplify app development
By turning code into brilliant solutions that improve people’s lives, app developers have the power to positively impact the world. At Apollo, we want to help developers help the world .To do that, we’re tackling the hardest problem in app development: data management.
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The market figured out Gitlab’s secret
Why we decided to combine version control with CI, and the rise of the single application.
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Why We're Bootstrapping Readwise (2018)
Our mission here at Readwise is to improve the practice of reading through technology by an order of magnitude. While we have some strong opinions and good ideas (we think) on how to build such a product (indeed, we've already started!), what was less obvious was: How do we fund
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Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue
The Start of Our Company Hard Lessons Learned Some Solid Advice What's Next for Us? My brother, Justin, was an engineer at Google, and I was a data
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A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit
An overview on the basics behind how we quantify product-market fit at Tribe Capital. These are the underpinnings of our underwriting framework.
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Leap Spins out of YC
In 2017, Cadran Cowansage [https://twitter.com/cadran_c], a software engineer at YC, started building [https://blog.ycombinator.com/join-leap-an-online-community-for-women/] Leap, an online community for women in tech. This YC project led to thousands of women talking openly about their experiences and sharing career…
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Why New Technology Is a Hard Sell
Let me tell you about the only time in history a new technology has been adopted by almost everyone virtually…