Twice a year, close to 200 teams of aspiring tech entrepreneurs, most in their 20s, converge on Mountain View, in Silicon Valley, vying for a spot at Y Combinator, the seven-year-old seed-funding firm–cum–accelerator co-founded by venture investor Paul Graham. Their dream: becoming the next Y.C.-backed sensation, like Dropbox, Airbnb, or OMGPOP. In an adaptation from his new book, Randall Stross..
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I want to again praise YC and PG for all that they have done to innovate and disrupt the world of venture capital, and the leadership and bravery they have displayed in doing things different. They are most certainly the Giant whose shoulders we all stand upon, 500 and others included. They are kicking everyone’s ass, and they are easily King of the Hill.
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Germany’s internet scene is similar to Silicon Valley in about the same way one would compare Cobra 11 with Die Hard: The substance is the same and it pops a lot and loud, but it’s not quite the same.
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Above all else, great entrepreneurs are driven by passion and have the courage to execute on their vision of the future. They are not reasonable people. Don’t avoid trying to change the world because you don’t want to “end up like Steve.”
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Soon after Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, he decided that a shipping company wasn’t delivering spare parts fast enough. The shipper said it couldn’t do better, and it didn’t have to: Apple had signed a contract granting it the business at the current pace. As Walter Isaacson describes in his best-selling biography, Steve Jobs, the recently recrowned chief executive had a simple...
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The two most important things to understand about startup investing, as a business, are (1) that effectively all the returns are concentrated in a few big winners, and (2) that the best ideas look initially like bad ideas. The first rule I knew intellectually, but didn't really grasp till it happened to us. The total value of the companies we've funded is around 10 billion, give or take a few.
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Paul Graham blasts lowball VC offers in general, and Google Ventures in particular, according to a report.
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If you do an uncapped note it’s bad for the investor. If you do a capped note it’s bad for the entrepreneur. I’m not sure why people don’t see that. It has both a “full rachet” and “multiple liquidation preferences.”
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Ah. We’re back to discussing convertible debt again. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “convertible equity.” Think about it. If you’re going to agree the maximum price you might as well agree a minimum price, too. Which means you’re agreeing the actual price. That gets rid of the ratchet. At that poing you might as well have done equity but if...
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Don’t build a fast company, Jason Fried tells Fast Company. Build a slow one. Jason Fried is a founder and CEO of 37signals, a software company based in Chicago. Fried also treats 37signals as something of a laboratory for innovative workplace practices--such as a recent experiment in shortening the summer workweek to just four days. We caught up with Fried to learn how employees are like...
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