Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. I spent time on college campuses. I hustled.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 1, 2019

She landed at ClearBrain (YC W18) as the second eng hire, and found exactly what she wanted: a great mentor/manager, a strong technical team, and challenging work to keep her learning (but not overwhelmed). There are a lot of companies that hire out of there, and DraftKings was one of them. It didn’t cost them anything.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In 2021, many YC founders led their companies to achieve outstanding results, and we are honored to be part of these companies’ history.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. Of course, YC itself remained remote during 2021, as did all of our programs. In 2021 an extraordinary ten YC companies went public.

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Y Combinator

MAY 29, 2019

They were in the Summer 2015 batch of YC and you can check them out at SecondMeasure.com. Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC. Before working at YC he cofounded Wufoo. 00:00 – What idea did Mike apply to YC with? 4:00 – From project to company. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. According to recent data , funding to women-founded companies dropped from 2.8% Now, I’m not a founder, but I was very happy in my role at Andresseen Horowitz.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Ok, now into this week’s newsletter! “AI Before we see a whole wave of AI prompt engineering consultancy practices for hire — just kidding, we already are — I figured it would be helpful to aggregate some of the top tips I’m hearing from the community on how to better interact with AI to get it to give you the answers you want.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The advice was one of ten bullet points in a memo meant to help companies navigate the economic downturn crushing tech. Now, YC is saying that “this slow down will have a disproportionate impact on international companies,” among others. YC advises founders to ‘plan for the worst’ amid market teardown.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

Kevin Hale is a Partner at YC and cofounder of Wufoo. He also runs a public company. 9:00 – How would he have priced HubSpot differently knowing what he knows now? 28:45 – Keeping your company hungry when you’re big. 29:15 – Building assets for your company. How does he do both?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Now, down rounds are hardly shocking in today’s environment. The fact that the company might raise money to pay off a tax bill raised eyebrows internally here at TechCrunch.

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