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Y Combinator's new Request for Startups lays out 20 world-changing ideas - spanning revolutionizing robotics to ending cancer - aimed at motivating founders to fuel applications for YC's upcoming summer batch. Is this you?
If every customer brings you two more (n+2) you won’t ever have to hire salespeople. This article shares overlooked referral techniques, from VIP rewards and promo pairings to features enabling shared use and compound word-of-mouth momentum.
Many startups wrongly believe the saying, “If you build it, they will come.” Even with a great product, growth demands a polished sales machine. This article lays out 4 vital steps towards sales mastery for technical founders new to sales.
Arc, a product from The Browser Company, has been trending recently. They’ve reinvented, you guessed it, the browser. The Browser Company is now valued at $100m. This long read unpacks its recent growth, extracting lessons learned about building excellent startups that challenge the status quo – from strategy and product ethos to storytelling and brand building.
An extensive list of resources on design thinking, legal frameworks, fundraising strategies, pitch decks, growth metrics, marketplace tactics, and much more.
Sequoia’s 7-week seed-stage accelerator program.
As a company grows, finding the “right” structure for product and growth teams often proves to be elusive. The ideal structure may be counterintuitive at first: a tangled cross-functional team with engineers, PMs, and designers all doing a little bit of everything all at once.
Performance improvement plans, an HR relic of the 80s, have recently resurfaced in the tech industry after the hiring boom of 2021 and subsequent layoffs. The former CEO of Netflix doesn’t like them very much, but are they a useful tool to exit underperforming hires?
Your relationship with your team changes when you become a leader. You realize you cannot be friends with everyone and have the same relationships with your employees as they have with each other. Are leaders cursed with being lonely in their jobs?
As entrepreneurs, we tend to pack our schedules with activities. Here's a quick reminder that creating buffer time can help you and your team achieve much more.
Preference stacks matter, a lot. When a company exits with $200M after a $50M investment, investors with a "1x preference" get $50M upfront, while those with a "2x preference" get $100M upfront, impacting how the rest is divided among founders and employees.
The title speaks for itself: limit meetings, shorten emails, cut down memos. Do less to do more.
New data reveals distributions to limited partners have hit a 14-year low in 2023 - VC funds are struggling to return capital as the IPO market sputters. With liquidity essential to raising subsequent funds, low DPI scores hamper those without realizations to showcase.
AI is going to automate parts of the workforce. The reaction so far has been two-sided – will this efficiency mean the same humans can do more or does it mean that fewer humans will do the same tasks? This article explores comparisons between the impact of tech on manufacturing and agriculture and what we’re seeing today with the modern knowledge worker.
Educating the rest of your company on the value of marketing is often the toughest part of marketing. Overcoming this requires savvy "internal marketing" efforts, aligning with other teams, and sharing priorities to gain support for impactful results.
Benchmark data in B2B SaaS is hard to come by. This report examines thousands of data points from various B2B SaaS companies to reveal benchmark data for founders.
Boosting your LinkedIn presence could make the difference between stalled outreach and closed/won. This tactical blueprint dissects optimizing all LinkedIn profile components: leveraging feature sections, banner images, photos, about, and tagline copy to build social proof and ultimately convert your leads.
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For startups, it's tempting to swing for that big moment: viral product-market fit or hockey stick adoption. Sustainable success rarely looks like a sporadic breakthrough, but rather continually improving what your startup uniquely excels at.
How much does pedigree matter? Two studies unravel the significant but complex links between academic credentials and metrics of innovation, funding, recruitment, exit potential, and leadership tenures.
The pressure is immense right now to have a plan to factor AI into your existing product. This short step-by-step guide will help you take the first step.
Effective Accelerationism, or e/acc for short, has been doing the rounds over the last year. Figures like Marc Andreessen and Vitalik Buterin have weighed in on the topic. Here’s another angle on the movement.
There are two types of founders - those driven by a specific mission and those motivated by entrepreneurship itself, irrespective of the business mission. Which type are you?
Layoffs signal recomposition - it seems most are still keen to hire into sales roles.
New Miami resident Jeff Bezos sold nearly 12 million Amazon shares for a total of more than $2 billion in his first stock sale since 2021. Where’s he planning to invest that money?
New public market data reveals software companies leveraging AI are achieving significantly higher trading multiples and growth projections than non-AI peers – a valuation gap likely to permeate private markets in 2023-2024.
Thanks to the AI boom, NVIDIA's market cap has reached $1.7 trillion, equivalent to the combined market cap of all Chinese firms listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Grant Lee, the founder of Gamma, recounts scaling from 0 to 10 million users in just 9 months. In this article, he shares 8 keys to their massive growth detailing the scramble to handle hockey stick adoption while maintaining positive cash flow.
Start with the question “How are you?” and simply listen to the response. You’ll be able to get a read on what’s bothering them, allowing you to bucket the response into updates, events, or disasters and then plan the rest of the time together accordingly.
Building a startup is hard, and often you’ll feel like you’re in a bit of a rut. Here are some simple things to consider deploying in order to get yourself back in the fight.
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Are RTO policies working? According to this report, the answer is no. Only 16% of surveyed organizations remain exclusively in office, highlighting a substantial shift towards flexible work models.
Ever wondered how OpenAI is able to innovate and build at such a fast pace? In this podcast, Logan Kilpatrick, OpenAI's head of developer relations, discusses OpenAI's unique culture, the importance of high agency and urgency, and OpenAI's decision-making framework for launching products.
Over 75% of public market trades (AUM of $1T+) are now driven by data-driven algorithms, a revolution initiated by hedge funds in the 90s. Today, that data-driven approach is rapidly infiltrating venture capital, with projections indicating that over 75% of VC deal reviews will involve AI and data analytics by 2025, transforming how investments are sourced, evaluated, and managed.
Pivots, do they pay off? Jyoti Bansal, founder of AppDynamics (sold for $3.7B) details the three biggest mistakes he made that hindered product-market fit.
This step-by-step framework helps you convert website traffic by writing sticky copy that grabs attention.
Here’s a 5-part thread on how playing the long game, shaping your vision, and building leverage lets you seize control of your startup's capital strategy.
The bar for IPOs keeps creeping up. Median stats from 2015-2020 were $200m ARR, 50% YoY growth, and >120% net retention. With an abundance of impressive public SaaS companies from previous vintages, new IPOs will have to prove even more in order to attract attention.
To get a term sheet, you need to kiss quite a few frogs. To get several, you need to kiss a lot. SV is the only place in the world that has enough depth, number of investors, and amount of capital to enable founders to shop around for term sheets at scale. This competition amongst investors gives leverage to founders, making the terms they get offered more friendly.
What does it take to succeed on Product Hunt today? A 6-time PH launching startup shares insights from its latest launch experience, covering how the platform has changed, its results, and tips to optimize your strategy.
A growth model is a bit like a financial model. It’s something built on a spreadsheet designed to enable you to tweak inputs and see how they impact your growth so you can make better decisions about where you invest your time and efforts in acquiring users. For many early-stage startups, a full growth model is too complex. Here’s a more simple framework to use.