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From AI Hype To AI Math: The Market Just Changed The Rules
Crunchbase
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‘Why Not?’ How Sales Automation Unicorn Clay Uses Tender Offers To Reward Employees Without An Exit In Sight
Crunchbase
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This paint acts like a dehumidifier for your walls
Fast Co - Design
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I Tried RentAHuman, Where AI Agents Hired Me to Hype Their AI Startups
Wired
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z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique
Venture Beat
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AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say
Techcrunch
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Backboard.io claims its AI has a better memory than yours
BetaKit
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Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains
Techcrunch
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How to get into a16z’s super-competitive Speedrun startup accelerator program
Techcrunch
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The search is on: 2026 Joseph C. Belden Innovation Award nominations are open
Techcrunch
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How AI changes the math for startups, according to a Microsoft VP
Techcrunch
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UpScrolled’s social network is struggling to moderate hate speech after fast growth
Techcrunch
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Crunchbase
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Twilio co-founder’s fusion power startup raises $450M from Bessemer and Alphabet’s GV
Techcrunch
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Amid Record Robotics Funding, Apptronik Raises $520M Series A Extension To Boost Production Of Humanoid Robot Apollo
Crunchbase
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High-Spending Investors Give 2026 An Active Start
Crunchbase
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Exclusive: Winn.ai Raises $18M Series A For AI-Powered Real-Time Sales Assistant
Crunchbase
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We’re in a trade-down economy, and Ulta is winning
Fast Co - Design
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AI Industry Rivals Are Teaming Up on a Startup Accelerator
Wired
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OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell
Venture Beat
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Elle, MD, Hiive, and LiORA among latest CIX Startup Awards winners
BetaKit
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Investors Go Hard for Voice AI With a String of Big January Deals
Eric Newcomer
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Cowboys, lassos, and nudity: AI startups turn to stunts for attention in a crowded market
Guardian Tech
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Gen AI Video Startup Runway Raises $315M Led By General Atlantic At $5.3B Valuation
Crunchbase
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Modem closes $4.4-million USD pre-seed round to help developers ship faster
BetaKit
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In The Era Of Unicorn Valuation Escalation, A Trillion Dollars Isn’t What It Used To Be
Crunchbase
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Taiv wants to let you choose your own TV ads
BetaKit
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Haply Robotics raises $16 million to build the “steering wheels” for physical AI
BetaKit
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5 Startup Sectors Seeing Big Funding Growth
Crunchbase
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This Startup Thinks It Can Make Rocket Fuel From Water. Stop Laughing
Wired
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To build AI trust, the federal government should show us its prompts
BetaKit
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pHathom Technologies raises $4 million to pilot its coastal carbon-capture tech
BetaKit
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Waymo Leads An AI-Driven Lineup Of Large Financings
Crunchbase
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The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
Wired
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VillageSQL Raises $35 Million to Build the Innovation Platform for MySQL
Homebrew
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Elevate Farms acquires Fieldless Farms to create “Canadian food powerhouse”
BetaKit
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Y Combinator reverses decision, will invest in Canadian-domiciled startups again
BetaKit
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AgTech startup Brilliant Harvest secures $4 million USD in seed funding
BetaKit
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A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Wired
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Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
Wired
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Building with AI is now the “price of admission” for software startups, Inovia report says
BetaKit
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A16z speedrun-backed OpenSesame opens new doors with rebrand to General Magic
BetaKit
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HHS Is Using AI Tools From Palantir to Target ‘DEI’ and ‘Gender Ideology’ in Grants
Wired
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The startup bringing a piece of America’s FinTech stack to Canada
BetaKit
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Anthropic’s Throwdown on AI Safety Almost Got Lost in a Crazy News Cycle. It Demands Our Attention.
Eric Newcomer
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Canada’s cybersecurity startups have no room for error
BetaKit
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Canadian water purification startup Xatoms makes a splash at World Economic Forum
BetaKit
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Pluvo heads to San Francisco to join the latest a16z speedrun cohort
BetaKit
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Cellar Insights pockets $500,000 investment to help it protect potatoes
BetaKit
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Canada is the sixth-best place on earth to build a tech startup, new index suggests
BetaKit
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Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in
BetaKit
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Meet Winnipeg’s latest venture studio, Ignition
BetaKit
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Float secures nearly $100 million in debt to expand credit products for Canadian businesses
BetaKit
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Assembly Acquired By Quantum Workplace, Adding Recognition and Rewards to its HR Software Stack
Homebrew
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Congratulations to EquipmentShare on Going Public
Y Combinator Blog
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Prévoir closes $750K pre-seed round to scale its AI-powered fashion platform
BetaKit
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Mila and Inovia launch venture fund to turn AI research “diamonds” into startups
BetaKit
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Chata Technologies closes $10-million USD Series A to scale deterministic AI model
BetaKit
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Canadian companies are generating massive returns in the “bioeconomy”
BetaKit
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Jetson raises $50-million USD Series A to heat more homes efficiently
BetaKit
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YC alum DevCycle bought by Dynatrace to help developers move fast, but hopefully not break things
BetaKit
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Dominion Dynamics raises $21 million to build Canada’s “defence neoprime”
BetaKit
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Announcing the YC AI Student Starter Pack
Y Combinator Blog
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Oceantech accelerator Blue Action Canada opens applications for second cohort
BetaKit
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Science&Humans raises $10 million as hormone health enters the mainstream
BetaKit
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Slate raises $1.3 million to deliver embedded lending infrastructure to Canadian platforms
BetaKit
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Polygon buys blockchain startup Sequence to power its stablecoin push
BetaKit
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A smarter, safer way to run AI? Vancouver’s LōD Technologies is betting on it
BetaKit
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Should It Be Easier To Sue Influencers for Defamation?; 2025 Was the Year Self-Driving Car Optimism Went Mainstream; a Startup CEO’s Annual Learnings Post; a Podcast Where I Spoke for 43% of the Time; and +++ [link blog]
Hunter Walk
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Clarity Pediatrics Aims to Solve the Childhood Chronic Condition Gap in the Health System With $14.5 Million Series A
Homebrew
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The Toll of Stress on Startup Teams and Its Link to Founder Well-being
Brad Feld
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A startup in Mongolia translated my book
Pragmatic Engineer
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Congratulations to Groww
Y Combinator Blog
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BillionToOne Goes Public — The Startup That Made Genetic Testing Universal
Y Combinator Blog
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Nava Raises $30 Million Series C to Continue Making Managing Employee Benefits Simple
Homebrew
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Meet YC's Newest Visiting Partners
Y Combinator Blog
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The Life of a Crypto Founder
web3 weekly
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Healthcare Backoffices Are Benefitting from AI but Altira Thinks That Patient Care is the High Impact Opportunity
Homebrew
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YC x Coinbase RFS: Build Onchain
Y Combinator Blog
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Ankit Gupta Joins YC as General Partner, Bringing Deep ML Expertise
Y Combinator Blog
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Eloquent AI Raises $7.4 Million Seed Round to Power Customer Operations for the Financial Service Industry
Homebrew
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Oboe.fyi Launches Because AI Should Help You Learn, Not Become a Substitute for Learning
Homebrew
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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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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups
Pragmatic Engineer
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Ferrari Status
Collaborative Fund
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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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A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle
Alex Danco
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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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Warp Raises $18 Million Series A to Help Startups Automate their Back Office Tasks with AI
Homebrew
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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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Manifest Raises $15 Million Series A to Keep Your Software Supply Chain Secure
Homebrew
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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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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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Deal Memo: Astroforge
Eric Jorgenson
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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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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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Dear SaaStr: What Should a Bootstrapped Startup Focus on during the Initial Stages of Growth, Get More Customers or Make a Few Customers Really Happy?
SaaStr
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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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Why Momentum Matters
Pratyush Buddiga
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AI Startups: 100x and cheaper
Sarah Tavel
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Dear SaaStr: How Can You Land Big Customers If You’re a New Startup No One Has Heard Of?
SaaStr
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Gardening for Great Outcomes (Gestation Period Mental Model)
Eric Jorgenson
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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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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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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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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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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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