The Best of Y Combinator
10+ most popular Y Combinator articles, as voted by our community.
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Y Combinator on Edtech
YC’s Online Class (Sign up at StartupSchool.org)
We’re excited to announce our new online Startup School, with classes beginning on April 5. Anyone can sign up at StartupSchool.org for the 10-week massively open online course (MOOC), starting today. We want to teach everyone how to start a startup and help them along the way with guidance from peo
Y Combinator Companies
A list of companies YC has funded across many verticals including hardware, edtech, biotech, healthcare, developer tools, consumer and enterprise, to name a few.
Y Combinator on Freemium
How to Monetize a Freemium Business
For every successful freemium business, there are hundreds of companies that have tried freemium but failed. Here we’ll be sharing a step-by-step guide for monetizing your freemium business - covering user segmentation and targeting, monetization campaign set-up and best practices, and model optimiz
Y Combinator on Fundraising
How to Build a Great Series A Pitch and Deck: Series A
YC’s Series A Program Manager Janelle Tam on how to put together a great Series A pitch and deck.
Y Combinator on Paul Graham
How Y Combinator Started
How Y Combinator Started Paul Graham 15 March 2012 Y Combinator's 7th birthday was March 11. As usual we were so busy we didn't notice till a few days after. I don't think we've ever managed to…
YC Fellowship
Ten years ago, Paul Graham said there could be ten times as many startups if more people realized they could try. Thanks to the work he, Jessica, Trevor and Robert helped do, that’s become true. We think there is still room for another ten-fold increase in the number of (good) startups. But even now
Y Combinator on Startups
YC’s Essential Startup Advice
A lot of the advice we give startups is tactical; meant to be helpful on a day to day or week to week basis. But some advice is more fundamental. We’ve collected here what we at YC consider the most…
The Airbnbs
To celebrate Airbnb's IPO and to help future founders, I thought it might be useful to explain what was special about Airbnb.
Y Combinator on Venture Capital
Changes at YC
In recent years, we have also done some late stage investing. But late stage investing turned out to be so different from early stage that we found it to be a distraction from our core mission. So…
Y Combinator on YC
How to Design a Better Pitch Deck
The following is an adaption of a presentation I give to YC startups before we have them create their presentation slide decks for Demo Day. Here’s how to make a solid Demo Day slide deck. The thing to remember is that you already have everything you need to create a great presentation. There are
Announcing the YC Startup Library
We’re excited to announce the launch of the YC Startup Library, found at ycombinator.com/library. Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen…
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Growth Guide: How to Set Up, Staff and Scale a Growth Program
Shared by 375, including Mathias Böhm, Thomas Power, Rodrigo Prior, Quim, Mark Pitman
Before You Grow
Startups are defined by growth, but growth isn't step one in building a great company. If you focus on trying to grow before you make a product people love, you are unlikely to succeed.
Scaling Growth | Gustaf Alstromer (YC Partner + Airbnb) & Ed Baker (Uber)
Gustaf Alstromer, YC's newest Partner (formerly product lead for Growth at Airbnb) joined a panel with Ed Baker, (former Head of Growth at Uber), to share tips on growth experiments and team dynamics…
Paul Buchheit on Lessons Learned from Investing in 200+ Startups
Jasper Kuria interviewed YC Partner Paul Buchheit about his experience as employee #23 at Google, his key investing insights, and his advice for entrepreneurs.
Why Toys?
Some of the biggest technology companies look like toys in the beginning. From a classical business building perspective, this shouldn't happen. Toys are for fun. Businesses, especially huge ones, are for making money. Toys are small and of limited use. Large companies contain multitudes and perform
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