TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

Y Combinator this week announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. As Y Combinator makes a Product Hunt, Product Hunt is making an Andreessen Horowitz. TechCrunch+ is having an Independence Day sale! The overlap isn’t isolated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

These developer products reduce the traffic on the central Ethereum blockchain by offloading the hard work of processing transactions to efficient secondary chains that record data of transaction batches to the main Ethereum network. Offchain Labs raises $120 million to fix Ethereum’s shortcomings with its Arbitrum product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Y Combinator says it has intentionally shrunk the number of startups within its accelerator for the Summer 2022 batch. Y Combinator’s head of communications, Lindsay Amos, confirmed the reduction over text message, saying that the batch is still large “relative to the last five years of batches.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s the vibe one gets from Y Combinator’s Winter 2023 batch, which features no fewer than four startups that claim to be building a “ChatGPT for X.” Most of them have taken over some niches and are great at what they do: selling their products,” Luccisano writes. Only time will tell.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Y Combinator has announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products. In a blog post announcing the news, Y Combinator said that the program has existed for years but only internally for YC founders. 1,000 companies per Y Combinator batch?

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

Which, as it turns out is a highly underrated thing (more on that in another blog post). I’ll save the story of me and Brian for a different blog post, but suffice it to say, HubSpot ended up doing pretty well. I bootstrapped it, ran it for about 10 years and then sold it to a large software company in an all cash, no attachments deal.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 25, 2024

Even best-in-class products often feel either too inflexible and unsophisticated to do real work, or have steep, inaccessible learning curves (we’re looking at you, Adobe InDesign). We’ve already seen this with products like Midjourney and ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter. What Will GenAI Native Prosumer Products Look Like?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Family co-founder and CEO Alice Zagury announced in a blog post that the French startup accelerator is suing Oussama Ammar for multiple claims — breach of trust, forgery and use of forgery. They teamed up to build a different kind of startup accelerator without any batch or demo day.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

If you’re a student, applying Early Decision to YC allows you to apply one batch ahead of the current one. We tried it as an experiment and it worked so well that we’re offering it permanently now, for both Winter and Summer batches. The eight companies we accepted last Fall just finished the Summer 2019 batch.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 14, 2016

Thankfully, the batch and blast email days are long behind us. More about them—and less about me, my service, or my product. Instead of emailing people about your product when you want to, find opportunities to email people about things they’re interested in at moments when you know they’re likely to respond.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. I've been updating this list for a few years now. This year, to help you avoid analysis paralysis, I researched more than 50 free invoicing apps and spent several days testing the top contenders. Here's what I found.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. Our batch program funded 750 companies in 2021 — the most ever in a year. And then we sat for thousands of virtual interviews for each batch. In the end, we funded 350 companies in the Winter 2021 batch and 402 companies in the Summer 2021 batch. small rockets.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. In this blog post, we’re not going to talk about different business models, seat-based VS usage volume pricing, or subscription VS pay-as-you-go. This is the wrong question to ask.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 22, 2025

It's filled with helpful tips, product how-tos, and even a little incentive at the end. You then realize your emails are getting caught by spam filters because your sender reputation took a hit after a big batch of cold outreach last month. Table of contents What is email deliverability? But your open rates are weirdly low.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 21, 2015

He outlined some of the issues in a recent blog post : Using 1099 workers--people who, by definition, you can't tell where and when to be at a certain spot, is inherently inefficient. He told me months and months ago, before anything came out about Uber's workforce, how it was never going to work in a world of increased "on demand" services.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Time blocking " Time blocking (I do it with Google Calendar) can be especially helpful because it allows you to easily see your entire schedule in one place, and it can help you stay focused, prioritize better, and be productive by creating a clear plan for your day. As a knowledge worker, time is your biggest resource. Prioritization.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 29, 2025

If you're throwing together a quick social media graphic, making a poster for an upcoming event, or even creating a presentation, Canva is one of the best design tools you can use—but it isn't the only one. There are plenty of great Canva alternatives. Let's get one thing out of the way: Canva is popular for a reason.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The co-founders even went through Y Combinator as part of the Winter 2021 batch. They launched the current subscription product, which starts at $75 per month, in January of 2022. Earlier this year, Zuper , a provider of productivity tools for field service management and customer engagement, raised $13 million.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

These will also be higher touch (personalized touch, not batch and blast) than the rest of your database. I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing. I run PEVCTech , a community focused on this area. Lastly, interoperability.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 11, 2025

Sometimes a product comparison can be like comparing apples to oranges, but sometimes it can be like comparing lemons to oranges: kind of the same thing, but not really. Google Sheets at a glance If you don't want to read a granular breakdown of how the two products compare, here's the gist. It's also completely free.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

I did reach out to Wealthfront for comment and a spokesperson told me: “We unfortunately can’t discuss more than what’s been shared publicly in our blog or by UBS via their press release.”. Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. billion was scrapped.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 19, 2022

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. Our batch program funded 750 companies in 2021 — the most ever in a year. And then we sat for thousands of virtual interviews for each batch. In the end, we funded 350 companies in the Winter 2021 batch and 402 companies in the Summer 2021 batch.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

For example, let's say you have a form where customers can order multiple products at once. You can add a Looping step that runs the same action steps for each product line—like notifying the supplier and updating inventory. With Looping, the same action steps run automatically for each product, all in a single Zap.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). It published about 40 company launches per month, and YC itself only got a couple hundred applications for its first batches.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Users can generate data sets from simulated sensors to train the models on real-world robots, leveraging synthetic data from batches of parallel, unique simulations to improve the model’s performance. Isaac Sim, Nvidia’s robotics simulation platform, will soon be available in the cloud, the company said. ” Jetson Orin Nano.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 14, 2016

For anyone looking to increase their productivity in 2016, these are my best hacks for clearing obstacles and getting down to business. Jack Welch, former CEO of General Electric, said, “Always err on the side of delegation,” and that sentiment has become my most important productivity hack. The art of delegation. Define your days.

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Y Combinator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For those of you who don’t know, if you’re a student, applying Early Decision to YC allows you to apply now for the summer batch. We found out about Early Decision through a blog post a YC alum shared with us in September. We had been working on a product and getting advice from him. This week, we talked to GreenTiger.

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Y Combinator

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

When I started, it was just me and the founders and they were going through the S11 batch. In this interview, Vikrum tells us what he found most valuable about his YC experience, how to build successful developer tools, and why Gold Fig is going to put an end to embarrassing and costly configuration changes, once and for all.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 18, 2022

The guide is informed by hundreds of hours of talks, blog posts, and essays we’ve written for students who are interested in starting or working at startups – many of which can be found in the YC Library ). On any given day you can look on Product Hunt and see dozens of new companies launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Tim Ferriss gave this extra emphasis in his book.

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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. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 27:00 – Second Measure’s product development process. 19:00 – Data examples from their blog. 27:00 – Second Measure’s product development process.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

The software should also allow you to track the source of each lead, so you can focus your efforts on productive channels. Whether it's updating client details, scheduling viewings, or accessing documents and contracts on the fly, accessibility ensures agents can be productive no matter where they are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s able to write essays, code and more given short text prompts , hyper-charging productivity. Here’s a timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, to be updated regularly. The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

Y Combinator’s new era, with smaller batches, a refocus only on early-stage investing and a new chief executive, is in full swing. I will say that if you build something people want, that’s great — you just have to keep that “want” alive as you build new iterations of that first product. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

An uncoated control batch was similarly divided. Funds from this $5M SAFE at a 20% discount with a $20M cap will be used to set up operational centers in Mexico and Spain, accelerate production capabilities, and scale up sales and marketing. Israeli startup ProFuse aims to cut the production price of lab-cultured protein.

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