Intro While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first …
“Is your startup idea taken?” — and why we love X for Y startups at andrewchen
☝️Above: Michelle Rial (follow her at @TheRialMichelle), then working at Buzzfeed, posted this hilarious infographic with all the “X for Y” ideas. Here’s the original article.
Advice for First Time Founders | Y Combinator
We operate a platform called Bookface for YC founders to connect with each other, ask questions, find intros, and share advice. Recently on Bookface Zach Dixon [https://twitter.com/zachdixongg], cofounder of the gaming company Players’ Lounge [https://playerslounge.co/] (W18), asked a great question: 1. What are some things that you should’ve known as a first-time founder but did not? 2. How did you learn them? 3. How did they help? There were so many useful answers that we’re going to share
RECONSIDER
About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a little better. A little nicer than trying to manage a project over…
That’ll do pig, that’ll do
This is the completely unglamorous story of my startup I co-founded with my friend and business partner, Adam Bickford. A couple months ago it was acquired by our first investor who now manages it …
The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog
Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt
Open Source Startup: Why We Give Away All Our IP 🐝
Interview with Richard D. Bartlett, Loomio cofounder. Reposted with permission from Straight Up, a monthly startup resource that tackles…
Indie Startups - Neil Thanedar
10 years ago, my entrepreneurial goal was to raise $100M+ and make one $1B+ startup. Now my goal is to 100% own many $1M+ startups.
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Field Guide
The Startup Field Guide provides essential tools and insights to support early-stage founders on their journey to success.
When To Join A Startup
<p>Something has changed in the last few years which has made an increasing number of people want to join startups. It seemed to start around ...
The Press Release Is Dead — Use This Instead – Mike Butcher
I’m QUITE TIRED of dealing with MILLIONS of tech entrepreneurs (these days there are a HELL of a lot of you) and (some) PR people who have ZERO clue how to pitch me/TechCrunch/the media. Their pitches are long-winded and rambling. They ask if they could ‘send some more information’. Listen, I have no idea if it’s interesting or not until you send it! Many just ask me out to lunch or coffee. (Thanks, but I prefer hanging out with my *actual friends*). Even worse, they haven’t read this post or seen my presentation on how to deal with tech media. [2021 update: This is a basic outline for super-early startups. If you want something for Post Series A / later stage startups go here].
All Things Sales! 16 Mini-Lessons for Startup Founders | Andreessen Horowitz
As a former CEO and software engineer (Citrix, XenSource, VERITAS, etc.), board member of GitHub (recently acquired by Microsoft), and lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Busines, a16z general partner Peter Levine is constantly asked “Why sales?” by entrepreneurs and technical founders. He himself used to hold the “engineer-centric” view that if...
Startup idea checklist
I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these templates because they don’t exactly match my model of the world, so I wrote up my own list.
Traits of Founding Teams That Win — An IT VC’s perspective
By Christopher J. Rust, Founding Partner, Clear Ventures
Interviews with Failed & Successful Startup Founders
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Meet the AI OnlyFans: How one startup raised millions to build an ‘erotic companions’ platform
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