YC's 15‑Partner GP Team Feels Like a Dream
YC is a partnership of 15 GPs who have all these qualities It’s honestly a dream
Scrappy Startups Outperform Overfunded Incumbents in Bake‑offs
Scrappy startup founders beating overfunded incumbents head to head in bake-offs https://t.co/8BZoeKUjM6
YC Targets 5x+ DPI, Promising Thousands of Happy Founders
YC’s goal: make all the mega funds 5x+ net DPI (And all the other funds small and medium sized too) If that happens there are a lot of happy founders. Thousands. Tens of thousands.
Startup Grind: Early Lessons, Endless Work, Rookie Mistakes
Here’s a fun artifact: @Jason grilling me (age 28) about my startup, convertible notes, and working 7 days a week along with @arrington A prequel to YC Garry, pre-15 years of hard knocks, didn’t figure out yet I shouldn’t get...
Root Ventures: Celebrating Top Hacker-Founder Engineer Investors
Huge congrats to Root Ventures, such a great team of hacker founder engineer investors - the best kind
Breadth Beats “Spray and Pray” At Seed Stage
Breadth matters at seed. “Spray and pray” is a lazy pejorative and LPs who insist on spreading that toxic meme will destroy the firms they invest in and and their own returns.
Skip Finishing Schools, Build Real Value and Relationships
Someone at the SF Standard is going to write a story about how I told people not to go to Slow Ventures Finishing School. FWIW I really like a bunch of the people who work there, and I have no...
Virality Amplifies Retention and Monetization, Not Guarantees Them
Going viral and having a high retention product people love (and pay for) are two different things Virality is just a multiplier on retention and monetization