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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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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free
Venture Beat
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AI leadership development platform Praxis Labs sells to Torch
Techcrunch
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A cloud-seeding startup did not cause the Texas floods
Techcrunch
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Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’
Techcrunch
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Medium’s CEO explains what it took to stop losing $2.6M monthly
Techcrunch
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Startups Weekly: Still running
Techcrunch
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Fintech Attracts Biggest Rounds While AI Holds Strong
Crunchbase
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Julie Wainwright is building what comes next — join her fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Techcrunch
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Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Techcrunch
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Accel, General Catalyst Topped Increasingly Busy Active Investor Ranks In Q2
Crunchbase
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Canadian co-founded eSIM provider Airalo hits unicorn status with $220-million USD Series C round
BetaKit
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A Screenless Future
Collaborative Fund
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Germany Leapfrogs UK To Lead European VC Investment In Q2 As Region’s Funding Settles
Crunchbase
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Manzil wants to become “the North American Islamic neobank” as it expands to the US
BetaKit
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Budgeting for AI in Your Startup
Tomasz Tunguz
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The AI Effect: MaintainX Sees Valuation Jump To $2.5B With $150M Series D Raise
Crunchbase
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Crunchbase
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North America Venture Funding Surged In First Half Of Year As Q2 Held Strong
Crunchbase
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R-Labs secures $3.5 million to help create more startups tackling “big problems” in real estate
BetaKit
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Autotech Startup ServiceUp Lands $55M In Series B Funding
Crunchbase
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These Japanese trucks are slow and small. People can’t get enough of them
Fast Co - Design
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Exclusive: AI-Powered Construction Procurement Startup Lands $20M Series A
Crunchbase
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Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger Companies
Crunchbase
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LeoMed raises $2.75-million seed round for telehealth patient monitoring platform
BetaKit
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Deep Sky science chief Phil De Luna departs company to “build something new”
BetaKit
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Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: temperature check
Pragmatic Engineer
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Feds back startup OCCAM’s Technologies as part of $21.5-million Alberta carbon capture investment
BetaKit
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The events, speakers, and prizes you’ll find at Startupfest 2025
BetaKit
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Robotics startup Attabotics closes down and terminates employees
BetaKit
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Cohere looks to capitalize on Montréal’s AI talent with new office
BetaKit
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Last-mile delivery startup UniUni to continue North American expansion with $95.4-million CAD Series D round
BetaKit
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Podcasts on The Startup Community Movement
Brad Feld
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What Founders Can Learn From Topaz Labs
Om Malik
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Nvidia acquires Canadian AI efficiency startup CentML
BetaKit
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Bridgit’s Mallorie Brodie explains why Canadian startups need to think globally from the start
BetaKit
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Klue lays off 40 percent of staff as startup faces internal and external AI pressure
BetaKit
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Where does value accrue beyond Open AI?
Collaborative Fund
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What making music taught David Usher about running an AI startup
BetaKit
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9Bio Therapeutics’ Philipe Gobeil wants to “resurrect” clinically validated cancer therapies that failed due to toxicity
BetaKit
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NiaHealth raises $5.75 million as it hopes to become a household name in preventative healthcare
BetaKit
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Inside Collaborative Fund’s 4x DPI Fund I
Collaborative Fund
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Waabi’s Raquel Urtasun calls for Canada to “wake up” to physical AI revolution at Homecoming
BetaKit
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Why Mastercard is the go-to partner for Canadian FinTech
BetaKit
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Conquest Planning raises $110-million Series B to fuel US expansion of its financial management platform
BetaKit
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Book: Fever Pitch: A Novel About Selling Your Vision, Raising Venture Capital, and Launching Your Startup
Brad Feld
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Botpress closes $34-million CAD Series B to help companies build and deploy AI agents
BetaKit
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Teresa Resch knows tech can give the Toronto Tempo a competitive advantage
BetaKit
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Storytime Capital holds $14-million first close of Fund II to back more startups modernizing work
BetaKit
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Fighting for Context
Tomasz Tunguz
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With $3-million pre-seed round, Xatoms launches pilot projects to purify water with quantum chemistry
BetaKit
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Former Graphite Ventures analyst to launch new Vancouver incubator Althra
BetaKit
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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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Carbon Upcycling lays foundation with $24.5-million round led by Chicago-based impact investor Builders Vision
BetaKit
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Extend Raises $17 Million to Build the Document Processing Cloud
Homebrew
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Photonic to open UK quantum R&D centre to aid international expansion
BetaKit
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New School Foods to expand beyond plant-based salmon to other meat alternatives
BetaKit
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Doing Elegant Work
Eric Jorgenson
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Toronto-Waterloo, Vancouver, Ottawa drop in Startup Genome’s 2025 global ecosystem rankings as Montréal, Calgary hold steady
BetaKit
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Cohere bringing AI into public sector through partnerships with Canadian, UK governments
BetaKit
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Kyle Braatz got Fullscript to $1 billion in revenue by treating every new business segment like a startup
BetaKit
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Dalton Caldwell’s Move to Partner Emeritus
Y Combinator Blog
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Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
Pragmatic Engineer
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Montréal tech looks to scale up with opening of Ax.c innovation hub
BetaKit
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Scale AI's Alexandr Wang in the Driver's Seat With Meta Deal
Eric Newcomer
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Former Anges Québec CEO Geneviève Tanguay joins Panache Ventures as partner
BetaKit
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Eli Health closes $17-million CAD Series A to fuel launch of hormone-monitoring tech
BetaKit
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ENVGO raises $2.7-million seed round to bring its electric “flying” boat to market
BetaKit
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The program giving global founders a reason to build in Canada
BetaKit
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The can’t-miss events at Saskatoon Startup Week and Ottawa Innovation Week
BetaKit
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InBC’s Jill Earthy knows Canadian VC “could be healthier”
BetaKit
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Taiv lands $14.4-million CAD Series A to put targeted ads on bar and restaurant TVs across North America
BetaKit
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Delivering Safer Streets for Residents, Obvio Raises $22 Million Series A
Homebrew
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Portless raises $24.7 million to be retailers’ port in a trade storm
BetaKit
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Fispan continues industry trend of secondary-heavy deals with Series B round
BetaKit
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Xanadu touts another advancement toward scalable quantum computing
BetaKit
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Tradeoffs are the new muscle behind startup growth
BetaKit
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Former Raptors star Jerome Williams newest teammate of community connector Swiirl
BetaKit
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Women-led startups sweep first Pitch competition on stage at Web Summit Vancouver
BetaKit
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UrbanLogiq wants governments to rely on its AI-powered insights
BetaKit
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Alberta’s tech sector is embracing an AI data centre boom. Will it pay off?
BetaKit
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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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How Marc Lore Architects Unicorns
Mario Gabriele
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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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Turning $5M Into $100M
Collaborative Fund
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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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When Software Eats the World, Vulnerable Populations – Like Kids – Can Get Exposed to Venture Risk Without Knowing It
Hunter Walk
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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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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.
Hunter Walk
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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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Where to find to The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast
Pragmatic Engineer
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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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The Pragmatic Engineer in 2024
Pragmatic Engineer
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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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Inside the AI Chip Market: NVIDIA, TSMC, Custom ASICs
Rihard Jarc
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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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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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Introducing Alt Capital
Jack Altman
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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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Data Pipeline Startup Satsuma Acquired by Alchemy to Power Subgraph Product
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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With Ello, AI Becomes a Personalized Reading Coach for Kids
Homebrew
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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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A Simple Tool To Create Effective Board Meetings
Brian Balfour
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MatX: Faster chips for LLMs
Homebrew
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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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Albert Invent Raises $7.5 Million Seed Round Because The Nearly $5 Trillion Chemicals and Manufacturing Science Industry Needs Modern Software
Homebrew
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Manifest Raises $6 Million Seed to Address Software Supply Chain Visibility Through Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs)
Homebrew
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Adonis Raises $17.3 Million Series A to Help Health Care Providers Manage Revenue
Homebrew
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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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Hard Startups
Sam Altman
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How To Invest In Startups
Sam Altman
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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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Join the YC Software Team
Sam Altman
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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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