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You do need a technical co-founder [video]
Based on the thousands of companies YC has funded over the years, companies lacking a technical co-founder underperform. In this episode of Dalton + Michael, we’ll discuss exactly why that is.
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The YC Founder Directory
Today, the YC community is made up of nearly 10,000 founders, from all different backgrounds – each with a unique road to entrepreneurship. Discover founders who have had experiences that reflect your own and learn more about their journey.
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“Yes” means “no”: The language of VCs
A failed founder’s survival guide
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LangChain Announces 10M Seed Round
LangChain secures $10M seed round from Benchmark to empower developers building AI apps with our open-source framework for data-aware, agentic LLMs.
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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next
Meet the projects that make up the first GitHub Accelerator cohort and learn about how GitHub is helping bring their visions to reality.
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2023: Focusing on a single product pays off
The first year where I managed to keep my focus entirely on a single project.
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How Duolingo reignited user growth
The story behind Duolingo's 350% growth acceleration, leaderboards, streaks, notifications, and their innovative growth model
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Arduino raises $22M Series B round
We are happy to announce that Arduino raised an additional $22 million round, taking our Series B funding to $54 million, thanks to an expansion co-led by
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Visa to acquire Brazilian startup Pismo for $1B
Visa (NYSE: V) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash.
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Databricks acquires serverless Postgres vendor bit.io
bit.io is joining Databricks, where co-founders Adam Fletcher and Jonathan Mortensen and the team will apply their expertise to deliver groundbreaking new developer experiences for data and AI.
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The golden era of being an open startup is gone
To me, the golden era of being an open startup is gone. Some founders and early adopters are shutting down their open pages and changing their transparency practices. I don’t think they are doing it just because things change and we need to cope.
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TigerBeetle raises $6.4M to power the future of financial accounting infra
A textbook database problem
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How and why we acquired our .com domain
The story of acquiring and migrating from supertokens.io to supertokens.com
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Most AI startups are doomed
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
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Nile: Serverless Postgres for modern SaaS
I am thrilled to announce Nile, a serverless Postgres database designed for modern SaaS applications.
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Raise less, build more
The conventional venture capital funding path – from raising an institutional Seed, Series A, B, C, D, E, etc, all the way to exit via IPO – has long been treated as gospel. Its verses …
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How I feel quitting my own startup
I left my own startup after almost 5 years of hard work. It was a tough decision, but a necessary one.
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Why agencies get stuck at $50k MRR
Can we just keep adding more clients until at 150 clients we hit $300k MRR?
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Be where your business is
This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog. A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast…
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Prisma laying off 28% staff
Restructuring Prisma
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Bootstrapping a SaaS Business in Germany: How I did it
Lukas Hermann, founder of Stagetimer, delves into the nitty-gritty of bootstrapping a SaaS business in Germany. Learn about navigating bureaucracy, tax management, pricing, product development, tech stack, marketing, and more. A must-read for aspiring German entrepreneurs.
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Lessons from YC AI Startups
The evolution of the AI landscape, and YC's Copilot era.
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Looking back on SaaS product strategy
Looking back on how we chose what to build over the years.