Hunter Walk

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. So what follows are Five Question with Nilam.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Tan will be taking over the role from Geoff Ralston, who has been with YC since 2011. Ralston did not say what’s next for him, only writing: “I am leaving YC, but I’m not actually the retiring type and am looking forward to some to-be-discovered adventures.” Tan wears many hats. Ralston continued.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

On September 28, LinkedIn released its Top Startups list, which is its self-described annual ranking of 50 emerging U.S. Here’s what I found out: Seven fintech companies ranked in the top 50: Brex (No. Drilling down, I learned that among the seven fintech startups that made the list, there are 125+ open roles.

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

According to recent data , funding to women-founded companies dropped from 2.8% Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner. Now, I’m not a founder, but I was very happy in my role at Andresseen Horowitz.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Vikrum Nijjar joined as the first engineer at Firebase, and did whatever it took to help the company succeed: scaling out infrastructure, shipping mobile SDKs, hosting 1-1 office hours with developers and even standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year. At a startup, you get to contribute to just about everything.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Cynthia Rogers, a CS graduate from WPI near Boston, made her move to San Francisco with no job lined up, a decision tree of startup failure outcomes and well wishes from her old team at DraftKings. Read how she evaluates startups — both technically and culturally — and some useful tips she used along the way.

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