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startupsventurecapital.com June 14, 2016
Valuation For Startups — 9 Methods Explained

This article was co-written and published in French by Augustin de Cambourg and in Portuguese by Raphael Mielle. The box has a value. The more things you put in the box, the more its value increases. Add a patent in the box, the value increases.
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yourstory.com May 27, 2017
Startups will now benefit for 7 years under the new startup definition by Modi govt

The government has amended the definition of a startup, thereby making it easy to avail of incentives and promote entrepreneurship under the Startup India scheme.
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techinasia.com May 30, 2017
20 Indian startups poised to expand in global markets

London & Partners, an agency of the city administration supported by tax firm BDO and banks Santander and Newland Chase, has been on the hunt for Indian startups ready to expand in global markets. They’ve selected 20 after screening hundreds.
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techcrunch.com May 29, 2017
Saluting veteran founders and their mission-driven startups

As Military Appreciation month wraps up for May and we recognize Memorial Day, I wanted to recount an experience I had judging a hackathon for military veterans run by VetsinTech and hosted at Facebook.
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saastr.com May 25, 2017
Why are (most) startups burning through so much cash?

For most software / internet companies, the gross margins approach 80%. That means for every $10 you bring in, you get to keep at least $8 for payroll, etc. after paying off expenses. In the early days, that’s not a lot of money.
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techcrunch.com May 27, 2017
Chasing dreams may be the next sleeper hit for venture capitalists

A lot of startups are pitching ways to put us to sleep lately. In response, investors are perking up and writing big checks. Call it Big Sleep.
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economictimes.indiatimes.com May 28, 2017
What a bunch of Indian startups have in common with Elon Musk's Tesla: Energy-efficiency ventures

Three hundred and fifty million Indians could enjoy uninterrupted electricity supply if factories and other commercial establishments wasted it less, a brighteyed Arjun Gupta surmised in his report as a research assistant at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, one of t
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businessinsider.com May 26, 2017
Healthtech startups face uncertain future

This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. As the US Congress wrestles once again with health care reform, companies that offer digital health products and solutions have been thrust into limbo.
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techcrunch.com May 23, 2017
Our favorite startups from Alchemist Accelerator batch 15

Founded as an enterprise alternative to accelerator stalwarts like Y Combinator, Alchemist Accelerator has managed to assemble a solid track record in its five years of operation.
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techcrunch.com May 23, 2017
Meet the 21st batch of 500 Startups companies

This batch, which contains 31 companies, focuses on a range of topics, like VR, healthcare, financial technology and even drones.
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paulgraham.com
How to Get Startup Ideas

The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.
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bothsidesofthetable.com August 20, 2015
What I’ve Learned About Venture Funding

VC funding. Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles.
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themission.co July 14, 2016
If It Doesn’t Suck, It’s Not Worth Doing

According to psychological research, the anticipation of an event is almost always more emotionally powerful than the event itself. The dread of asking your boss for a raise is paralyzing and can last months. Yet, once you get yourself to finally do it, it’s over before you know it.
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paulgraham.com
Before the Startup

One of the advantages of having kids is that when you have to give advice, you can ask yourself "what would I tell my own kids?" My kids are little, but I can imagine what I'd tell them about startups if they were in college, and that's what I'm going to tell you.
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entrepreneur.com January 10, 2012
Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups

Anyone who has started a business has his or her own rules and guidelines, so I thought I would add to the memo with my own. My "rules" below aren't just for those founding the companies, but for those who are considering going to work for them, as well. 1.
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paulgraham.com
What Startups Are Really Like

I wasn't sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups we'd funded. What hadn't I written about yet? I'm in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write about startups.
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entrepreneur.com January 14, 2015
How I Built a Startup While Traveling to 20 Countries

One year ago, I left San Francisco, sold and gave away everything I owned, and moved into a 40-liter backpack. And my total costs were less than just the rent in San Francisco.
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entrepreneur.com February 6, 2015
Skip the Boring Business Plan. Focus on This Strategy Instead.

The concept of starting a business without a plan would send anyone running -- and for good reason. Every great business begins with a plan that outlines measurable goals and the methods for achieving them. Plans, done correctly, can be a great roadmap.
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medium.com September 20, 2015
How To Eliminate 90% Of Your Regret And Anxiety By Thinking Like A Roman Emperor

Do you know what Steve Jobs, John D. Rockefeller, Amelia Earhart, and Ulysses S. Grant have in common? They each possessed the talent of turning obstacles into opportunities drawn from the Stoic ideologies of Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius.
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joel.is May 13, 2017
Work harder on yourself than you do on your startup

A long time ago, I came across the amazing quote above, which was said often by Jim Rohn. It stook in my mind, and as the years have gone on, I feel I’ve increasingly started to learn the true meaning of it.
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mcsweeneys.net February 4, 2014
Son, It’s Time We Talk About Where Start-Ups Come From

Hey there, I’m glad we’re watching CNBC together. Don’t those Silicon Valley entrepreneurs look awful young? Especially that main one ringing the NASDAQ bell, with the spiky hair and shifty eyes? Interesting he chose to wear a hooded sweatshirt on the day he became a billionaire.
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justinkan.com November 10, 2014
The Founder’s Guide To Selling Your Company

For most founders, selling a company is a life changing event that they have had no training for. At Y Combinator, one big thing we help our startups with is navigating questions around the acquisition process.
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levels.io September 21, 2013
What I learnt from bootstrapping my startup from Thailand in six months

It’s been 6 months now since I moved from Amsterdam to Asia to work remotely. I chose Thailand for its low-cost of living and safety.
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fastcompany.com December 17, 2013
“Become An iOS Developer In 8 Weeks”: The Truth About Hack Schools

After the design firm where he worked as a web developer went under, Ray S. turned the bad news into an opportunity to transition into iOS development. The Chicago-area resident thought a local coding bootcamp called Mobile Makers would help him make the jump.
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thenextweb.com June 10, 2014
The one hire every startup desperately needs to make

I want to introduce a new concept — ‘talent hacking’. I define this as the creative application of technology and data to the problem of building new teams. I’m trying to coin this phrase in part to highlight how we’ve bizarrely neglected the ‘people’ part of the startup stack.
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paulgraham.com
Ideas for Startups

October 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2005 Startup School.) How do you get good ideas for startups? That's probably the number one question people ask me.
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paulgraham.com
Black Swan Farming

I've done several types of work over the years but I don't know another as counterintuitive as startup investing.
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medium.com July 16, 2015
Paul Graham’s Startup Advice for the Lazy

Paul Graham is a renowned programmer and wildly successful venture capitalist. He also happens to be a talented writer.
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paulgraham.com
How to Make Wealth

If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds of years.
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paulgraham.com
Schlep Blindness

There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passed into general use in the US. It means a tedious, unpleasant task.
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paulgraham.com
Startup Investing Trends

Y Combinator has now funded 564 startups including the current batch, which has 53. The total valuation of the 287 that have valuations (either by raising an equity round, getting acquired, or dying) is about $11.7 billion, and the 511 prior to the current batch have collectively raised about $1.
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medium.com August 17, 2014
Seven lessons I learned from the failure of my first startup, Dinnr

(Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need to cook that recipe at home, all the items pre-measured with printed instructions.
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ryancarson.com June 8, 2012
The Naive Optimist — How I manage 40 people remotely

I’ve been running Treehouse since August 2010 from my home in the United Kingdom. We started with just three people (me, Nick Pettit and Jim Hoskins) and now we’re about to hit 40 full-time employees.
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techcrunch.com July 20, 2014
The Problem With Founders

Feeling bored at work? Just go start a company. Feeling depressed about life and lack any direction? Just go start a company. Broke up recently? Just go start a company. Had a parent die and can’t move on? Just go start a company. (To be fair, I overheard that one last year.
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onstartups.com May 8, 2013
The Pitch Deck We Used To Raise $500,000 For Our Startup

One of the big no-no’s we’ve learnt about early on in Silicon Valley is to publicly share the pitchdeck you’ve used to raise money. At least, not before you’ve been acquired or failed or in any other way been removed from stage. That’s a real shame, we thought.
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medium.com May 23, 2015
Why I won’t run another startup

Lured by the lights of the startup industry, founders are the product in someone else’s show. So I’ve made five new rules for myself. Earlier this year, I closed my startup. So now I get to reflect on what I’d have done differently.
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theverge.com June 18, 2013
Inside Pocket: how a startup beat its rivals to build the 'DVR for everything'

The day before he turned 27, Nate Weiner drove from San Francisco to Mountain View for the most important meeting of his life.
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thenextweb.com March 29, 2017
Read This Before Naming Your Business

I’ve learned a lot from the development of NameLayer, and I’m ready to divulge every trick in my arsenal. In this guide, I provide realistic solutions to the frustrations encountered when naming a company. Plus, I’ll have some fun analyzing both good and bad company names.
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firstround.com
A Counterintuitive System for Startup Compensation

When joined Facebook, the company already had 400 employees, but there was no official performance or compensation system in place. There had been attempts, but nothing stuck. The result: Very little transparency, a lot of one-off compensation decisions, frustration and confusion.
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bothsidesofthetable.com November 4, 2009
Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Let’s face it. If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc.
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blakemasters.com May 20, 2012
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 13 Notes Essay

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 13 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s entirely. The biggest philosophical question underlying startups is how much luck is involved when they succeed. As important as the luck vs.
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medium.com September 6, 2015
Your well-funded startup is already dead

Once a startup raises their seed round, more often than not I see a team slipping into trouble after just a week. The founders may have just banked a year’s worth of runway, it doesn’t matter. I already know the startup is going to die.
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washingtonpost.com February 6, 2015
At some start-ups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday

PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s Friday afternoon, and the funky, open floor office of Treehouse LLC, a fast-growing tech company, is empty. The lights are off. Rows of computers are silent. The food in the well-stocked pantry, the ping-pong table and video-game consoles untouched.
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entrepreneur.com January 2, 2015
12 Organizations Entrepreneurs Need to Join

Ever since becoming an official entreprenuer, I have been attending entrepreneurial events. I have attended and joined 1000's of different organizations. There are many out there that I personally haven't gotten anything out of.
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talkroute.com September 29, 2014
We Got Accepted Into Techstars & Turned Them Down

Yes, we were accepted into one of the nation’s most prestigious accelerator programs and turned them down. So are we crazy? I’m sure there are those of you out there that think we are nuts for turning this opportunity down. That’s fine and you may be right.
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tomtunguz.com March 26, 2013
Your Startup’s 10 Most Important Metrics

With the analytics tools today, it’s easy to measure hundreds if not thousands of different metrics for your business. Cutting through all the chaff to determine the most important or insightful metrics can be quite a challenge.
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techcrunch.com April 7, 2015
Uber Co-Founder’s Startup ‘Operator’ Will Get You What You Want

Send an instant message asking for something, and they’ll do the grunt work of placing your order and getting it delivered to you. That’s the idea for Uber co-founder Garrett Camp‘s new startup Operator that’s still in stealth, according to sources with direct knowledge of the app.
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techcrunch.com July 28, 2014
The Most Important Factor Of Startup Success

Whenever you think of startups, you very likely think of young people brimming with ideas sitting in garages and dorm rooms and solving problems with technology.
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fundersandfounders.com July 1, 2013
How Startup Valuation Works – Infographic

How would you measure the value of a company? Especially, a company that you started a month ago – how do you determine startup valuation? That is the question you will be asking yourself when you look for money for your company. Let’s lay down the basics.
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paulgraham.com
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some. Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
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thenextweb.com May 18, 2017
300+ Awesome Free Internet Resources You Should Know

I’ve prepared a list of 300 web resources that are not only awesome, but free to use. if I am missing any other useful resource!
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blogs.wsj.com June 3, 2014
Jessica Livingston: Why Startups Need to Focus on Sales, Not Marketing

JESSICA LIVINGSTON: The most important thing an early-stage startup should know about marketing is rather counterintuitive: that you probably shouldn’t be doing anything you’d use the term “marketing” to describe. Sales and marketing are two ends of a continuum.
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swooshing.wordpress.com March 19, 2009
Startup Seed Raising Skilzzz

A bunch of companies I’m involved in have gone for seed funding in the last few months. After one of them asked for the ultra-warrior-l33t-skillz, I thought I’d put this post up and break it down. If any of you are raising your first startup or seed money, this is a must read.
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buzzfeed.com
Living In The Disneyland Version Of Startup Life

Before WeWork came knocking, the 12-story building at the corner of South Clark and 23rd streets in a grayscale office park in Crystal City was outdated and vacant.
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groovehq.com October 3, 2013
5 Early Wins That Got Our SaaS Startup 1,000 Beta Users

Last week we launched a new series about our journey to $100K a month. Now let's go back to where it all began... In May of 2011, I was talking on the phone with a fairly well-known VC. We had been introduced through mutual friends, and I was telling him about my plans for Groove.
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techcrunch.com March 27, 2011
Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted.
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blog.kirigin.com October 18, 2013
I’m Going To Give My Startup Ideas Away

I keep a secret list. It has every good idea for a startup I’ve had. Are any really good ideas? I haven’t done the work to find out. The first step would be to explore them in depth, maybe with an essay. The real test is actually doing it. I’m on my second startup right now, YesGraph.
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medium.com June 23, 2014
My startup failed, and this is what it feels like…

Over 90% of tech startups fail, but I never thought my baby, 99dresses, would be one of them. If there is one thing that doing a startup has taught me, it’s that I am much more resilient than I could have ever imagined.
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okdork.com April 28, 2017
The 6 Step Guide to Getting Free Press for Your Startup

To be honest, I wanted to not like the guest post you’ll read today. “PR” can be terribly boring. Before I started reading it, I decided that I wasn’t going to share it.
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inc.com May 28, 2015
Your Startup's Pitch Needs Only These 10 Slides

Pitching your startup to investors just might be the most nerve-wracking aspect of starting your new business -- well, besides the prospect of losing your shirt. I get it. The last thing you want to do when you're sleep-deprived and edgy and suffering startup angst is pitch it over... and over...
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paulgraham.com
The Equity Equation

An investor wants to give you money for a certain percentage of your startup. Should you take it? You're about to hire your first employee. How much stock should you give him? These are some of the hardest questions founders face. And yet both have the same answer:
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entrepreneur.com October 9, 2014
From Dreaming to Succeeding, the 12 Phases of Entrepreneurship

Euphoric super fans tout entrepreneurship as the best thing since the iPhone. Others describe it as a never-ending slog of busywork. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
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entrepreneur.com July 23, 2015
5 Strategies I Used to Start and Grow a Successful Business With Only $200

I graduated from college in the worst year for finding a job in recent history: 2009. I had one interview after another, and the one offer I did receive kept getting delayed. I needed to find a job fast or move back home to California from D.C.
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paulgraham.com
What We Look for in Founders

October 2010 (I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the last item because they didn't have room.) 1. Determination This has turned out to be the most important quality in startup founders.
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techcrunch.com December 15, 2014
How To Speak Startup

Hang with startup kids long enough, and you’ll notice that they have their own language. No, bro, it’s a SaaS play in the on-demand food space.
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forbes.com March 25, 2015
How Super Angel Chris Sacca Made Billions, Burned Bridges And Crafted The Best Seed Portfolio Ever

Between the parade of wet suits and abundant seafood and yoga joints, Manhattan Beach, just south of Los Angeles, tries to cling fast to its surf town roots. It’s a tough battle.
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bothsidesofthetable.com November 19, 2009
What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

This is part of my Startup Advice series. I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do It.
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inc.com September 16, 2014
50 Best Websites for Entrepreneurs

There are many websites out there that can help entrepreneurs grow a bigger, better business--but there are many more time-suck websites. How can you tell the difference? By depending on a cheat sheet for the best websites for entrepreneurs.
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medium.com September 10, 2015
What Every Startup Founder Should Know About Buying Domain Names

Rewind back to five years ago, and I was helping some of the most incredible startups on the planet to find and acquire domain names.
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techrepublic.com
How the 'PayPal Mafia' redefined success in Silicon Valley

A decade ago, the PayPal Mafia played a major role in revitalizing the tech industry in Silicon Valley. The story behind this group of leaders proves that their success is more than just luck. The "PayPal Mafia" is no mafia at all. It's a diaspora.
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businessinsider.com February 6, 2015
THE TECH 'TITANIC': How red-hot startup Fab raised $330 million and then went bust

On Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Fab CEO Jason Goldberg gathered a dozen executives in the eighth-floor conference room of the company's New York City headquarters. When the executives filed in, they were handed a five-page document.
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paulgraham.com
Startup = Growth

A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly founded does not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessary for a startup to work on technology, or take venture funding, or have some sort of "exit." The only essential thing is growth.
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techcrunch.com April 28, 2014
How I Killed A Startup In 4 Hours (And Why I Don’t Regret It)

Editor’s note: Milo Yiannopoulos is a journalist and broadcaster. His first book, The Sociopaths of Silicon Valley, will be published in 2015. I hate activist journalism. But last week, I was responsible for the death of a startup.
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startupgenome.com July 27, 2015
The 2015 Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking – Startup Genome

One important caveat to note: Our index does not currently include startup ecosystems from China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. It has been challenging to get survey participants and complete data. We hope to have these ecosystems included in our index later this year.
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25iq.com June 14, 2014
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Marc Andreessen

Marc Andreessen is able to explain himself so well that I should have less commentary to add to the quotations in this post than usual.
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cbinsights.com October 7, 2014
The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail

We analyzed 101+ startup failure post-mortems to identify the top reasons startups fail. Here they are. We dug into our compilation of startup failure post-mortems (currently 101 and growing) and analyzed each one to understand the reason(s) for startup failure.
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paulgraham.com
How to Start a Startup

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.
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qz.com May 17, 2015
Here’s how to launch a start-up when you only have 99 dollars

When it was first invented, I can imagine that the press release was an incredibly powerful tool. Write a single document, fire it off to the largest media outlets, and boom—instant press coverage.
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entrepreneur.com May 8, 2015
5 Tips for Keeping Your Day Job While Launching Your Own Business

In an ideal world, you have at least a year’s salary saved up and you can quit your day job in order to focus 100 percent on your entrepreneurial venture. Unfortunately, that’s just not feasible for many entrepreneurs who end up being successful.
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qz.com September 6, 2014
Why our startup has no bosses, no office, and a four-day work week

In 2008, my study partner Hernán Amiune and I had finished studying computer engineering at Catholic University of Córdoba Argentina. During our last years at university, we had done some internships in companies such as HP, IBM, and Intel.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
The best entrepreneurs don’t start companies, they invent categories

Starting a new company is difficult. The numbers say that 75 percent of startups fail, but that doesn’t change the fact that lots of people do it every day. Inventing a new category, however, is downright herculean.
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defmacro.org August 13, 2013
57 startup lessons

There are already very good lists of startup lessons written by really talented, experienced people (here and here). I’d like to add another one. I learned these lessons the hard way in the past four years. If you’re starting a company, I hope you have an easier path.
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theverge.com November 5, 2013
Out of the picture: why the world's best photo startup is going out of business

One day last month, the seven employees of Everpix gathered at their co-working space in San Francisco to discuss the company's impending shutdown.
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blog.kissmetrics.com
The Beginner’s Guide to Startup Analytics

Becoming an entrepreneur is like stepping onto the most intimidating roller-coaster in the world. There are ups, there are downs and there are unexpected turns. Sometimes you feel a little sick afterwards and sometimes you’re just inexplicably happy.
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paulgraham.com
Do Things that Don't Scale

One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale. A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or don't. You build something, make it available, and if you've made a better mousetrap, people beat a path to your door as promised.
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bothsidesofthetable.com December 27, 2011
Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok. One of them is profitability. There is a healthy tension between profits & growth. To grow faster businesses need resources in today’s financial period to fund growth that may not come for 6 months to a year.
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techcrunch.com August 24, 2013
The Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running Your Business

Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest book, “Choose Yourself!” (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter) came out on June 3. Follow him on Twitter @jaltucher. This is going be a bullet FAQ on starting a business.
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oncletom.io January 1, 2012
Why our startup failed

One would never expect their startup to fail 6 months after having raised half a million euros from public investors. It eventually happened to me, as the CTO of Dijiwan, a former digital marketing startup based in Bordeaux, France.
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firstround.com
Dropbox's Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products

Soleio Cuervo has been thinking about how to tailor technology to users for almost a decade. And he’s had a pretty unique vantage point.
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paulgraham.com
How to Raise Money

Most startups that raise money do it more than once.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
How to create a great startup blog and stand out from the competition

Blogging is like the modern day welcome mat, showing passers-by that someone is home and will probably answer the doorbell if you ring it. For startups, this is particularly important as you strive to establish your voice and brand point of view.
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paulgraham.com
The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question.
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avc.com October 4, 2015
The European Startup Market – AVC

At USV, we’ve been investing in European startups since 2008. Currently 22% of our active portfolio is in Europe. Since 2010, we’ve invested in 47 companies (roughly 8 per year) and 11 of them have been in Europe (roughly 2 per year).
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techcrunch.com July 26, 2014
The First Trillion-Dollar Startup

Editor’s note: Rhett Morris is the director of Endeavor Insight, the research arm of Endeavor, a nonprofit that supports more than 900 entrepreneurs in 20 countries. He edits a blog and monthly newsletter on entrepreneurship ecosystems here.
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forbes.com February 11, 2015
Hyperloop Is Real: Meet The Startups Selling Supersonic Travel

The majestic Senate majority leader suite in the U.S. Capitol was still Harry Reid’s in September when he eagerly scooched his leather chair across the Oriental rug to gaze at something that, he was told, would change transportation forever.
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om.co February 4, 2013
Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. And yet, it is like a high none other. I have experienced it in others. And quietly, I have lived it for over six years. Here are some lessons I learned from my journey.
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