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Getting through the Ramen Phase of Your Early Stage Startup
1.) Think of a great idea. 2) Organize a team around said idea. 3) Launch product. 4) Become a billionaire. If you take media’s word for it, you would think that this is the trajectory of the average...
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What Facebook Rooms Means for Your Business
Fans of 90s chat rooms rejoice! Last week Facebook launched a forum app called Rooms. Not to be confused with the cinematic masterpiece The Room, Rooms helps you create tiny message boards to talk...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: Read This Before You Even Think About Starting a Startup
Party. Do magic things on your computer that make you money. Party some more. If you think that’s what it means to be an entrepreneur, then you’re in for a surprise. Contrary to what you see in the...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: 3 Essentials for Scaling
When the founders of the Y Combinator-backed startup Homejoy wanted to disrupt the cleaning industry, they took a novel approach – they became a part of the cleaning industry. Right away they realized...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: How to Build Products Users Love
What does it mean to make products that users love? What does that look like? According to Kevin Hale, founder of Wufoo and partner at Y Combinator, making products users love involves focusing the...
View ArticleSo Your Startup Got Funding, Now What?
You’ve barely seen friends and family since you decided to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Your waking moments have been devoted to building, tweaking, fundraising, networking … whatever you had...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: How to Hire the Best Team
According to Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, your ideal cofounder is James Bond. Altman doesn’t mean your startup should be filled with trigger happy philanderers who spend their free time...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: Competition Is for Losers
What does competition actually look like in the startup world? How can young businesses be competitive? And is our society’s relationship with competition healthy? Peter Thiel — cofounder of PayPal,...
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How to Start a Startup: Lessons from Facebook’s VP of Growth
Before he was the VP of Growth at Facebook, Alex Schultz was one of the few people in the world who transitioned from a career in physics to marketing. Like many origin stories, his interest in...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: Creating Company Culture
Zappos is renowned for its core values and culture. In fact, the online shoe and clothing shop is so adamant about culture fit that they pay people who don’t fit into their culture to leave their...
View ArticleHow to Start a Startup: Pinterest and Stripe Founders Share Advice on Hiring...
What do you get when you pick the brains of the founders of Pinterest and Stripe? A riveting discussion about company culture and team-building. Y Combinator president Sam Altman recently sat down with...
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