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Paul Graham and The World Out There

This is going to be BIG.

The classes got too big and quality was diluted because, by PG''s own admission, YC " grew too fast.". I''m thinking maybe I found about three dozen companies worth that much in the nearly 400 companies that have been through YC since Airbnb. That''s less than 10%.

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Gridware’s $26.4M Series A Funding Revolutionizes Power Grid Monitoring with Gridscope Technology

American Entrepreneurship

Following its successful pilot with California-based PG&E last year, the pioneering utility has since expanded to a large-scale deployment covering more than 1,000 miles of power lines and 10,000 poles. Today Gridware is trusted by utilities across North America, serving millions of customers across ten U.S.

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Competing To Win Deals

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Here’s what I sent him: 1/ Startup = Growth by PG: [link] 2/ Competing To Win Deals by Fred Wilson: [link] pic.twitter.com/q7GG2k7UAX — Semil (@semil) March 27, 2022. So I clicked on the link to my Competing To Win Deals post, which I wrote in 2010, and read it.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

TechCrunch

Countable has made over 120 “implementations” for brands like Starbucks, which uses it for employee engagement, Uber, Patagonia, Levi’s and PG&E, which Myers said uses its site to provide tips and resources to homeowners and businesses on how to prepare for emergencies. “We

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Tim Brady is leaving YC

Y Combinator

PG, in his seminal essay “ How to Start a Startup ”, said you should always look to find “animals” as your co-founders, and Tim is an animal in the best of all possible ways. colleague Paul Graham and he not only thought it was a great idea, he offered to help!

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Amplitude (W12) is going public

Y Combinator

We all, including PG, believed in the team and the idea, and it was pretty obvious they were onto something real. And once they had a product, they almost immediately had customers. This was a really good sign. Within a couple of months, everyone’s confidence was soaring.

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South Korean online secondhand marketplace Danggeun Market raises $162M at a $2.7B valuation

TechCrunch

Danggeun Market is expected to get approval from South Korea’s financial supervisory service (FSS) as early as September for two licenses, such as payment gateway operator (PG) and prepaid payment means operator, to launch Danggeun Market’s payment service, Karrot Pay, this year, Kim said. Canada and Japan.