Y Combinator

MARCH 27, 2020

We aggregated the advice shared by alum, including Sid Sijbrandij & Darren Murph of GitLab (remote team of 1,200+), Wade Foster of Zapier (remote team of 300+), Ian Tien of Mattermost (remote team of 100+), Nick Raushenbush & Finbarr Taylor of Shogun (remote team of 60), Rajiv Ayyangar of Tandem (remote team of 6) and more.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

“In a culture where growing valuations are worn like a badge of honor, founders may fear that taking a down round would render them Silicon Valley pariahs,” writes Holden Spaht, managing partner at private equity firm Thoma Bravo. Legally binding, the document establishes both a company’s valuation and deal terms.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

Advice for non-technical founders for finding a serious CTO for your startup Finding a co-founder is hard work. Granted if you are developing a new cancer treatment then you will likely need to be quite technical with biology! Enlist help from a developer Perhaps you have a developer friend that can help you get started with the MVP?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Zurich tends to take the lion’s share, as the city’s embrace of startups has jump-started development, although Geneva and Lausanne are also hotspots. As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

CubeWorks’ CubiSens technology was developed on the Ann Arbor North Campus research block that is home to many innovative robotics and autonomous research facilities. FreightRoll claims that its app-based, paperless trade documents can save shipping companies up to 30% of freight overhead costs. RightBrain Networks. PassiveBolt.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

You can also drop in links to studies, medical journals, and other large text documents for a succinct summary. While the ideas it generates aren't always groundbreaking, it gives me a frame of reference that I can use to further develop ideas. Check this out. Hallelujah. It doesn't just have to be articles, either.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

but that won’t stop the almost daily influx of unsolicited advice and second-guessing you’ll receive. Despite the fact that people have been running successful businesses without venture capital since the dawn of man, current startup culture pushes the importance of VC above all else. Legal templates and investment documents?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. So investing $3-5 million in a company and taking a year to 18 months to see how it develops before adding more fuel can often be the right course of action. ” I don’t love that culture. But for every breakout that works are probably 10,000 that don’t.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If you can associate with people who challenge you to think positively, dream bigger and offer advice, your path to success becomes easier. It takes time to develop a customer base and even longer to develop a loyal one. You must live it by defining your company culture and ensuring your whole company believes and follows it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

At the big consulting firms, investment banks and established large technology companies we’re taught to produce long reports, make sure that every document is perfect quality and that every possible bit of diligence has been done. They don’t create a culture of punishment for mistakes. Good enough isn’t. But here’s the thing.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 11, 2019

4) Document, don’t create. Often getting started with video content feels like the hardest part – so document instead. Start capturing your internal company culture and your FAQ’s as regular vlogs, podcasts and instagram stories. People want the brand, not the bike. What if you have a key message for your audience?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Each week, TechCrunch editors host a show featuring entrepreneurs, developers and venture capitalists. We want to know what advice they have for those in similar situations. Last week , Itai Damti revealed how the company’s long-running Culture and Values document helped pitch the company.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2019

Take some time to develop a clear hiring process to advertise roles and assess and onboard new team members. Include interview questions to help you gauge personality, rather than just skills – to find the best fit with your team culture. So if you’re not sure, ask for advice. Locations, locations.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It requires a lot of attention to make sure the pace of execution does not slow and cultural issues do not emerge as you scale. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. Make it part of the product development process.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 3, 2021

These are some of the approaches we’ve seen YC companies pursue: In-vitro experiments at the bench, using banked cells or banked/cultured tissues. It’s time-consuming and complex, entailing setting up your quality system, documenting appropriately, and running studies according to tightly controlled protocols.

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StartupNation

APRIL 7, 2021

It seemed audacious to young Sale at the time, but she took his advice—and was offered another $2,500. “It is well documented , and driven in part by housing segregation and systemic racism. The organization is currently developing about $57 million worth of real estate in the Northeastern U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Not a chance.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? 15 minutes.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 9, 2022

What's your advice to other founders on how to hire executives? What is Zapier’s culture? The mission, strategy, metrics, goals, systems and processes – all of it – is well documented and organized so people can find them and take action. We also have a feedback-oriented culture.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Steve Chambers is the Vice President of franchise and business development at UPS. From the development side, they have a corporate retail solutions group where they connect with UPS and their contacts. Some leadership lessons and advice to small business owners? It can be even harder to do if you go about it alone.

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Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. Brian Halligan [08:26] – that didn’t have a bunch of developers running around. Craig Cannon [26:41] – Do you have any other advice for startups with little to no money?

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Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve definitely tried to draw out this narrative into a bunch of videos, but the basic story is that a friend of mine, who’s still a really great friend of mine who lives in New York turned me on to, he’s an Android developer, or mobile developer at large now. He’s just doing everything.

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