Venture-backed startups are failing at record rates | Hacker News
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if you work in product, CX/GTM, or are a founder overwhelmed with…
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GREG ISENBERG on X: "28 founder rules that they never teach you: 1. Cash-flow is like an "exit" every year 2. Networking events are 99% a waste of time 3. Your mental health is always at risk 4. You most likely won't make life changing money but will probably make "car changing" money or "house… https://t.co/ZAKuRvmzST" / X
1. Cash-flow is like an "exit" every year
2. Networking events are 99% a waste of time
3. Your mental health is always at risk
4. You most likely won't make life changing money but will probably make "car changing" money or "house…
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
Anna Monaco on Twitter / X
Things this founder did in her preparation for Y-combinator approving her startup
Jared Friedman on Twitter / X
(0/25) Here's a list of 25 YC companies that have trained their own AI models. Reading through these will give you a good sense of what the near future will look like.— Jared Friedman (@snowmaker) March 28, 2024
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anton (𝖜𝖆𝖗𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊) 🏴☠️ on X: "good morning from san francisco. now that the dust has settled on the first round of the openai debacle, it’s time to start asking some questions two of the board members who voted altman out, helen toner and tasha mccauley are deeply enmeshed in ‘effective altruism’" / X
critiques and pitfalls of the effective altruism movement
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Kevin Naughton Jr. on X
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Allison Barr Allen on Twitter
⛔️ The late stage VC market is flashing BIG warning signs: Founders might not pay as much attention to the size of VC funds, however in the last day alone it was shared that Insight has raised $2B of its $20B target & TCV has raised $1.4B of $4B goal.— Allison Barr Allen (@abarrallen) June 13, 2023
Daniel Vassallo on Twitter
Things you absolutely don’t need to launch:- a favicon- unit tests- a logo- an LLC- tax compliance- VAT handling- a merchant of record- terms and conditions- a privacy policy- a copyright notice- a trademark- commit messages- code reviews- code comments- a… https://t.co/0BnvQz1gDA— Daniel Vassallo (@dvassallo) March 1, 2023
Dan Rose on Twitter
The best tech companies drive strategy through product. This is why founders and CEOs tend to be product leaders, and product / design / engineering is more important than ops / marketing / finance. Here’s what this looked like for me as a business leader at Amzn and Facebook:— Dan Rose (@DanRose999) October 2, 2022
Gergely Orosz on Twitter
“This chart is exactly why companies like Notion or Airtable - ones where Microsoft/Google has viable alternatives - should be worried.
CIOs and CTOs will overwhelmingly choose the product that is included in their current suite in large enterprises where the big money is.”