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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Commonwealth Fusion’s Giant Financing Leads Otherwise Slow Week For Big Deals
Crunchbase
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Henrik Fisker quietly wound down his nonprofit after his EV startup went bankrupt
Techcrunch
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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs
Techcrunch
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Microsoft and Uber alum raises $3M for YC-backed Munify, a neobank for the Egyptian diaspora
Techcrunch
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Host an event beyond the main event: Apply to host a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Techcrunch
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The AI Vs. Junior Talent Dilemma
Crunchbase
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Investors Are Flocking To Fund Incontinence-Focused Startups
Crunchbase
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Dear SaaStr: What’s a “Messy Cap Table?” And How Do I Fix It?
SaaStr
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Vocal Image is using AI to help people communicate better
Techcrunch
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Nous Research drops Hermes 4 AI models that outperform ChatGPT without content restrictions
Venture Beat
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Figma Competitor Framer Raises $100M At $2B Valuation
Crunchbase
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Exclusive: FriendliAI Raises $20M Seed Extension To Grow AI Inference Platform
Crunchbase
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How CoLab reclaimed 100 hours from R&D tax filings
BetaKit
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Frontier signs $43.3-million CAD carbon removal deal with Planetary
BetaKit
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How Book of the Month club survived 100 years of a turbulent publishing industry
Fast Co - Design
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HR Tech Giant Gusto Scoops Up SMB Retirement Plan Provider Guideline
Crunchbase
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James Cameron reflects on 20 years of ‘Avatar’ and what he’s working on next
Fast Co - Design
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Crunchbase
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In August: Sewing Robots, Rare Disease Advocacy And More
Crunchbase
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This flying wind turbine can pull power from high in the sky
Fast Co - Design
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The Second-Order Effects of AI
Tomasz Tunguz
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AI Models Are Evolving Fast But Their Use is Gated By How Easy It Is to Test - Bluejay Makes Testing Voice and Text AI Agents Easy With a $4 Million Seed.
Homebrew
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Construction tech startup Mechasys lays out blueprint to scale with $23-million Series A
BetaKit
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Databricks opens Vancouver R&D centre as data giant anticipates $100-billion USD valuation
BetaKit
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North Vector Dynamics secures $4.2-million contract with National Defence for hypersonic propulsion
BetaKit
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Why Did a $10 Billion Startup Let Me Vibe-Code for Them—and Why Did I Love It?
Wired
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Canadian-led Aalo Atomics raises $100-million USD Series B for its nuclear power plans
BetaKit
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BDC commits another $200 million to startups building tech for legacy industries
BetaKit
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Feds sign new agreement with Cohere to explore AI uses within government services
BetaKit
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Friendlier closes $4.5 million to help more food service operators ditch single-use containers
BetaKit
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WonderFi Q2 earnings show widening losses ahead of Robinhood takeover
BetaKit
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Seed-stage rebound a bright spot in Québec’s gloomy VC landscape: report
BetaKit
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EvoBlog: Building an Evolutionary AI Content Generation System
Tomasz Tunguz
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YSpace is turning Toronto and York Region into a springboard for Hong Kong startups
BetaKit
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Uno Platform raises $3.5 million to bring “pragmatic vibe coding” to enterprises
BetaKit
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Rozvelt bets on hardware for hunters amid tariff-spurred funding crunch
BetaKit
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TeamLinkt scores $8.3-million CAD Series A to expand sports administration platform across North America
BetaKit
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Co.Labs’ XiR program is turning mentorship into $100 million of momentum
BetaKit
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Descartes continues US acquisitions as it navigates global trade upheaval
BetaKit
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Blue J raises $167.4-million CAD Series D after AI tax research platform more than doubles revenue
BetaKit
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AI is changing startup math
BetaKit
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Trade war uncertainty drags on for Canadian tech as US hikes tariffs, changes duty rules
BetaKit
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AI bookkeeping startup Ceedar is turning customers into investors
BetaKit
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Cybersecurity startup Cavelo secures $5-million seed extension round led by Inovia Capital
BetaKit
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4AG Robotics looks to grow fleet of mushroom-harvesting robots with $40-million Series B round
BetaKit
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Growcer snaps up assets of bankrupt US rival Freight Farms
BetaKit
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Cohere to access Canadian AI infrastructure and new clients through partnership with Bell
BetaKit
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Trump’s AI plan, a16z says OpenSesame, and a Yukon-born startup strikes gold
BetaKit
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Mantle rolls out free cap table management tool for early-stage startups
BetaKit
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Ferrari Status
Collaborative Fund
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a16z says OpenSesame to Canadian agentic AI startup for its speedrun accelerator
BetaKit
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AI-powered 9-1-1 call screening startup Hyper exits stealth with $6.3 million USD
BetaKit
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WonderFi co-founder’s xTAO startup secures $31 million CAD for its decentralized AI network
BetaKit
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Airweave Raises $6 Million Seed to Help Agents Become Smart by Letting Them Search Any App
Homebrew
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Sleep tech startup Smart Nora files for bankruptcy after tariffs derail product launch and fundraising attempts
BetaKit
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A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle
Alex Danco
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GeologicAI cashes in on data centre boom with $60.5-million CAD Series B
BetaKit
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Define Capital fuels up for more niche software acquisitions with $28-million debt facility from Scotiabank
BetaKit
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Where Are All the AI Drugs?
Wired
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Canada’s former open banking lead joins FinTech startup Brim Financial
BetaKit
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An AI strategy is no longer optional for Canadian startups
BetaKit
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MTatt takes home top prize at Startupfest 2025 as winnings exceed $1 million for the first time
BetaKit
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A Screenless Future
Collaborative Fund
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Prosperous American Agriculture Requires Financial Tools for Farmers and Ambrook Raised $26.1 Million to Provide Them
Homebrew
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Where does value accrue beyond Open AI?
Collaborative Fund
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Inside Collaborative Fund’s 4x DPI Fund I
Collaborative Fund
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Warp Raises $18 Million Series A to Help Startups Automate their Back Office Tasks with AI
Homebrew
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"Reproducing the conditions that made Sequoia’s hallways electric"
Collaborative Fund
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Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud
Homebrew
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Doing Elegant Work
Eric Jorgenson
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Dalton Caldwell’s Move to Partner Emeritus
Y Combinator Blog
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Delivering Safer Streets for Residents, Obvio Raises $22 Million Series A
Homebrew
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Our New Investment: Software for Mining (and Explosions!)
Eric Jorgenson
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Welcoming Jon Xu and Andrew Miklas as YC’s Newest General Partners
Y Combinator Blog
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Elad Gil: The Guy Behind Silicon Valley’s Greatest Unicorns [The Knowledge Project Ep. #228]
Farnam Street
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Garry Tan: Billion-Dollar Misfits (Inside Y Combinator’s Startup Formula) [The Knowledge Project Ep. #226]
Farnam Street
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Manifest Raises $15 Million Series A to Keep Your Software Supply Chain Secure
Homebrew
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“I think CEOs that are interested in a future acquisition need to be building relationships or at least awareness with potential buyers at least 2-3 years in advance, especially with strategics. If you’re not on the list, it’s rare for a deal to happen.” Joe Hyrkin on Selling Issuu to Bending Spoons, and More….
Hunter Walk
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Anonymous AI Engineer Funding SF Events, How Startup Decision Making is Like an Outdoor Survival Trip, the Guy Who Reports on Hacks Gets Pwned Himself, and +++ [link blog]
Hunter Walk
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OpenAI Is a Once-in-a-lifetime Startup
Evan Armstrong
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SchoolAI Secures $25 Million to Help Teachers and Schools Reach Every Student
Homebrew
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Tyler Bosmeny built Clever into a $500M company–now he’s helping YC founders do the same as General Partner
Y Combinator Blog
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The Right Amount of Fraud in Seed Stages Startups is Greater than 0% But It Shouldn’t Be Pardoned
Hunter Walk
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Analyzing the Fastest-Growing Software Category I’ve Ever Seen
Evan Armstrong
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Startups and SMBs Want Better Banking so Mercury Raised Another $300 Million to Provide It to Them
Homebrew
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Can the Startup Mindset Fix America?
Evan Armstrong
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Michael Seibel's Legacy Continues at YC: Transition to Partner Emeritus
Y Combinator Blog
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East Coast College Tour 2025
Y Combinator Blog
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MatX Raises $100+ Million Series A for High Throughput LLM Chips
Homebrew
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Chapter One Summer Internship Job Posting! 🚀
Jeff Morris Jr.
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Shield AI Has Created the Most Advanced Autonomous Pilot and Just Raised $240 Million to Span the Globe
Homebrew
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Quanta: Software That Makes Accountants 100x More Successful
Homebrew
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Summer Fellows Grants
Y Combinator Blog
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Join us at AI Startup School — June 16-17
Y Combinator Blog
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Deal Memo: Astroforge
Eric Jorgenson
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Announcing the YC Spring 2025 batch
Y Combinator Blog
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Ranger: Writing Code Is Changing So QA Needs to Change Too.
Homebrew
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David Senra's Ideas from the Greatest Founders in History [Updated 2025]
Eric Jorgenson
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Albert Raises $22.5 Million Series A to Bring More (and Smarter) Software to Material Sciences
Homebrew
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Exit Price, Not Entry Price
Eric Jorgenson
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Inversion Space Raises $44 Million to Power On-Demand Delivery from Space to Anywhere in the World
Homebrew
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Naval Ravikant's Most Popular Talks in 2024
Eric Jorgenson
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YC Winter 2025 batch applications due by Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Y Combinator Blog
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Blending Human and AI Agents, Regal Raises $40 Million to Power the Future of Sales
Homebrew
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Anchor's Cofounders Reunite to Start Oboe, a Learning Startup Using AI to Help Make Humans Smarter
Homebrew
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Finix Raises $75 Million to Support the Growth of its Full Stack Payments Infrastructure
Homebrew
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Insane and Pragmatic
Eric Jorgenson
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Cove: Artificial Intelligence Needs a Collaboration Layer
Homebrew
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Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI
Y Combinator Blog
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Join us at Startup School Europe in London - November 23
Y Combinator Blog
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ThreadAI Raises $6m Seed to Unify AI Infrastructure Into Customizable, Scalable, and Secure Enterprise Applications
Homebrew
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Purchaser.ai: AI-Powered Software to Finally Fix Manufacturing Procurement
Homebrew
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What Are AI Agents—And Who Profits From Them?
Evan Armstrong
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Welcome to the Era of the Gritty Startup
Evan Armstrong
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2000+ angel investors and growing!
Elizabeth Yin
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Data on how we invest at Hustle Fund
Elizabeth Yin
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YC Fall 2024 batch applications due by 8/27
Y Combinator Blog
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Why Momentum Matters
Pratyush Buddiga
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Adonis Raises $31 Million Because AI Is Delivering Actual Results, Not Just Hype, for Health Care Workflows
Homebrew
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Join us at Startup School 2024 in San Francisco - July 27
Y Combinator Blog
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Dissecting the past to predict the future: Tracy Young on building TigerEye
Y Combinator Blog
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Clarity Pediatrics Raises $10m for Chronic Condition Care, Starting with ADHD
Homebrew
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Intellimize Acquired By Webflow to Bring AI-Driven Personalization to Its Platform
Homebrew
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AI Startups: 100x and cheaper
Sarah Tavel
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The “Dinner Party Jerk” test — why founders need to pitch themselves harder and more futuristically
Andrew Chen
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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough
Andrew Chen
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Gardening for Great Outcomes (Gestation Period Mental Model)
Eric Jorgenson
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Reken Raises $10 Million to Fight Generative AI Security Threats
Homebrew
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Transit Tech Lab
Fred Wilson
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Qubit: Battery OpenCloud Report 2023
Marcelino Pantoja
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Ride Report Acquired By Inrix to Help Cities Managed Mobility and Public Space Usage
Homebrew
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Shield AI Raises $200 Million to Further Development of the World’s Best AI Pilot
Homebrew
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Qubit: SVB Market Report H2 2023
Marcelino Pantoja
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I Accepted a Job: CEO of Scribe
Eric Jorgenson
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What kind of startup are you building?
Greg Isenberg
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AI startups: Sell work, not software
Sarah Tavel
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How Investors Kill Companies
Eric Jorgenson
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Creator Economy 2.0: What we’ve learned, why it’s hard, and what’s next
Andrew Chen
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A Simple Tool To Create Effective Board Meetings
Brian Balfour
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11 Juicy Startup Ideas That You Should Totally Take
Greg Isenberg
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How to Blow Up a Timeline
Eugene Wei
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Qubit: Wing V21 Study 2022
Marcelino Pantoja
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Qubit: Y Combinator Startup Investing Chart
Marcelino Pantoja
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A New Kind of Startup Is Coming
Nathan Baschez
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The Give-to-Get Model for AI Startups
David Sacks
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How Ideas Grow
Nathan Baschez
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Startup weapons against ChatGPT: focus and a tight feedback loop
Sarah Tavel
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Advice for Building in AI
Nathan Baschez
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How Physics Explains Business
Nathan Baschez
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We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startups
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Startup life will get a lot worse
Sar Haribhakti
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Startup Boards Second Edition
Seth Levine
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The Rise of Fashion NFTs
Means of Creation
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
Eugene Wei
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Building and Compensating Your Board
Seth Levine
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Packy McCormick on Web3 (how he got sucked in)
Means of Creation
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You Can't Eat Relative Growth
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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The Traction To Growth Canyon
Brian Balfour
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Why I'm Joining Initialized Capital
Parul Singh
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Jarrod Dicker Is Thinking A Lot About ‘Web 2.5’
Means of Creation
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Screendoor opens to accelerate diversity within VC and tech
Satya Patel
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Lessons of Greatness: Design your category
Mike Maples
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Some Great New Builder Events This Week
Seth Levine
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Lessons of Greatness: DESIGN for Network Effects
Mike Maples
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Lessons of Greatness: Start a Movement; not just a business
Mike Maples
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Four Challenges Facing Developer Productivity Startups
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Mastering Growth Economics: What $100M Startups Do Differently
Parul Singh
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The Art of Strategic Product Management
Parul Singh
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The SaaS Board Meeting
David Sacks
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Lessons of Greatness: Get REAL
Mike Maples
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It's Go Time for Season 2
Mike Maples
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The Career Transition Hill of Anxiety
Brian Balfour
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Startup Communities | Rural Entrepreneurship
Seth Levine
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Gagan Biyani: Building Silicon Valley Startups
David Perell
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VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think
Seth Levine
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Your Startup Is a Movement
David Sacks
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Top Three Strategic Priorities of Developer Productivity Startups
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program
Seth Levine
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TikTok and the Sorting Hat
Eugene Wei
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A Guide to Building Breakthroughs
Mike Maples
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The Cadence
David Sacks
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Vibe Check: Social media impressionism
Josh Constine
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Lessons of Greatness: Don't just be resilient, here's how to be anti-fragile
Mike Maples
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Justice vs convenience: Changing America's defaults
Josh Constine
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An Update on The Colorado Talent Network
Seth Levine
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The Burn Multiple
David Sacks
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Investing in Downturns
Seth Levine
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CO #COVID-19 Talent Network
Seth Levine
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3/19/2020 Thoughts
Seth Levine
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The John Wick Universe is Cancel Culture
Eugene Wei
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What’s The Important Thing, that is powerful enough to override all your deficiencies?
Jason Cohen
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Capturing Luck with “or” instead of “and”
Jason Cohen
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Shape Up for Startups
Nathan Baschez
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How much should you be paying your auditor?
Seth Levine
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What We Learned from Hiring at Homebrew
Satya Patel
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting
Seth Levine
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Resilience
Seth Levine
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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?
Seth Levine
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Different vs. More
Seth Levine
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Benchmark’s Newest General Partner Chetan Puttagunta
Bill Gurley
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Invisible asymptotes
Eugene Wei
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The Changing Venture Market In 3 Images
Seth Levine
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Fun conversation on Angel podcast
Satya Patel
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How to Fire an Employee the Right Way
Satya Patel
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Why Information Grows
Eugene Wei
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“Customer First” Healthcare
Bill Gurley
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How we work at Homebrew
Satya Patel
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Benchmark’s New General Partner Sarah Tavel
Bill Gurley
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Homebrew’s 2017 Annual Meeting: Our POV from year four
Satya Patel
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Homebrew Year 3: The Path to Investment
Satya Patel
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How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
Paul Graham
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What’s your startup’s superpower?
Satya Patel
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Busy, but not productive
Satya Patel
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The two goals of startup fundraising
Satya Patel
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The idea maze for AI startups
Chris Dixon
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Skydio
Chris Dixon
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"The business plans of the next 10,000 startups are easy to forecast: Take X and add AI."
Chris Dixon
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"A lot of the best tech startups are ideas that have been around for years"
Chris Dixon
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Before the Startup
Paul Graham
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"We leverage the billions of dollars spent on the consumer mobile phone business"
Chris Dixon
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Full stack startups
Chris Dixon
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Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding
Chris Dixon
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The idea maze
Chris Dixon
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Startup Investing Trends
Paul Graham
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Hardware startups
Chris Dixon
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The credentials trap
Chris Dixon
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The product lens
Chris Dixon
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Some problems are so hard they need to be solved piece by piece
Chris Dixon
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How to Get Startup Ideas
Paul Graham
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The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions
Chris Dixon
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Notes on the acquisition process
Chris Dixon
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Startup = Growth
Paul Graham
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E-commerce startups
Chris Dixon
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Ten million users is the new one million users
Chris Dixon
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model
Chris Dixon
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When should you give up on an idea?
Chris Dixon
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The default state of a startup is failure
Chris Dixon
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Offline first, mobile enabled
Chris Dixon
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“Meaningful” startups
Chris Dixon
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Increasing velocity
Chris Dixon
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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Paul Graham
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Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
Chris Dixon
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Between failure and Facebook
Chris Dixon
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Maximizing capacity utilization as a startup premise
Chris Dixon
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Recruiting programmers to your startup
Chris Dixon
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Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”
Chris Dixon
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Technology and job creation
Chris Dixon
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Growth curves of startups
Chris Dixon
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Making industries “garage ready” for startups
Chris Dixon
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Why Startup Hubs Work
Paul Graham
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What the NYC startup world needs (and doesn’t need)
Chris Dixon
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure
Chris Dixon
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The downside of accelerated investment decisions
Chris Dixon
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Founder/market fit
Chris Dixon
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Allocation investing and the social premium
Chris Dixon
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Notes on raising seed financing
Chris Dixon
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Financing risk
Chris Dixon
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Showing up
Chris Dixon
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Founder Stories
Chris Dixon
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SEO is no longer a viable marketing strategy for startups
Chris Dixon
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Selling pickaxes during a gold rush
Chris Dixon
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The “thin edge of the wedge” strategy
Chris Dixon
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Timing your startup
Chris Dixon
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If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
Chris Dixon
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The Future of Startup Funding
Paul Graham
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Competition is overrated
Chris Dixon
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Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
Chris Dixon
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Underhyping your startup
Chris Dixon
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Organic Startup Ideas
Paul Graham
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Developing new startup ideas
Chris Dixon
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Don’t be creative about the wrong things
Chris Dixon
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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
Chris Dixon
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Incumbents
Chris Dixon
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Shutting down
Chris Dixon
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What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
Chris Dixon
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Presenting Founder Collective
Chris Dixon
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How to select your angel investors
Chris Dixon
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The ideal startup career path
Chris Dixon
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The challenge of creating a new category
Chris Dixon
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Understanding your market
Chris Dixon
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The problem with online “local” businesses
Chris Dixon
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What Startups Are Really Like
Paul Graham
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New York City needs a tech startup blog
Chris Dixon
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Question from a reader
Chris Dixon
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
Chris Dixon
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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret
Chris Dixon
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Options on early stage companies
Chris Dixon
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Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes
Chris Dixon
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The myth of the Eureka moment
Chris Dixon
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think
Chris Dixon
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Founder vesting
Chris Dixon
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Naming your startup
Chris Dixon
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Startups in 13 Sentences
Paul Graham
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
Paul Graham
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Why to Move to a Startup Hub
Paul Graham
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The Future of Web Startups
Paul Graham
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Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Paul Graham
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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups
Paul Graham
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A Student's Guide to Startups
Paul Graham
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Why Startups Condense in America
Paul Graham
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The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Paul Graham
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Why YC
Paul Graham
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How to Fund a Startup
Paul Graham
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Ideas for Startups
Paul Graham
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How to Start a Startup
Paul Graham
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