Blog
YC Ethos
- A New Venture Animal
- What I Did this Summer
- Why YC
- Why to Move to a Startup Hub
- Why Startup Hubs Work
- What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley
Ideas
- Ideas for Startups
- Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas
- How to Get Startup Ideas
- Organic Startup Ideas
- The Top Idea in Your Mind
- A Word to the Resourceful (Ambitious Ideas)
- The Power of the Marginal
- Schlep Blindness
- See Randomness
Startups
- Before the Startup
- How to Start a Startup
- Change Your Name
- What Startups Are Really Like
- Startups in 13 Sentences
- The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
- A Student's Guide to Startups
- Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy
- Why to Not Not Start a Startup
- The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
- Be Good
Founders
- What We Look for in Founders
- Learning from Founders
- Five Founders
- You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
- After the Ladder
Hacking and Open Source
Design and Making
- How Art Can Be Good
- Copy What You Like
- Taste for Makers
- Six Principles for Making New Things
- Design and Research
Funding
- How to Fund a Startups
- How to Raise Money
- Fundraising Survival Guide
- The Hacker's Guide to Investors
- How to Present to Investors
- How to Convince Investors
- The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company
- Investor Herd Dynamics
- High Resolution Fundraising
- Writing and Speaking
Wealth and Investors
Ops
- Hiring is Obsolete
- The Equity Equation
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
- Founder Control
- Don't Talk to Corp Dev
- Ramen Profitable
Scale and Growth
Resourcefulness and Determination
Niceness
Mishaps
Patents
School and Credentials
Words of Wisdom
- Is It Worth Being Wise?
- How to Do What You Love
- What Doesn't Seem Like Work?
- How to Lose Time and Money
- How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
- How to Disagree
- Two Kinds of Judgement
- The Island Test
- Disconnecting Distraction
- Good and Bad Procrastination
- Persuade xor Discover
- Mean People Fail
- Keep Your Identity Small
- What You Can't Say
- What You'll Wish You'd Known
- The Top of My Todo List
Trends
- Why Startups Condense in America
- Made in USA
- How to Be Silicon Valley
- Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.
- A Local Revolution?
- Cities and Ambition
- The High-Res Society
- The Future of Web Startups
- What the Bubble Got Right
- The Future of Startup Funding
- Startup Investing Trends
- Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
- The Venture Capital Squeeze
- A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
- Inequality and Risk
- Mind the Gap
- An Alternative Theory of Unions