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Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable(smartcompany.com.au)
579 points by zillionize 4y ago|506 comments
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Ask HN: Offer YC jobs APIs like Getro
1 points by zillionize 5y ago|0 comments
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by zillionize 9y ago
As an angel investor solely focused on Y Combinator with more than 100 startups under portfolio, my observation indicates being rejected by YC can be equally inspiring as being admitted, because over the time, I found out some startups may
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Practice Fusion sold for $100m after a $1.5b valuation(cnbc.com)
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Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency(techcrunch.com)
263 points by zillionize 9y ago|141 comments
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by zillionize 9y ago
>>have invested in more than 60 startups in the past few years with a small seed fund (never lead investors), plus another 6 as an angel. May you share some notable investments? I have invested in more than 100 startups and one of my
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by zillionize 9y ago
>>Think of it as, in principle, a Twilio for real estate. Twilio is famous for its simplicity - With one line of code or two, you can send a message or make a call. In this case, may you show me some pseudocode to call your APIs for t
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by zillionize 9y ago
>>We are a platform to digitally handle real estate titles (to start!) leveraging the blockchain, offering an API for companies so that they can provide their services to homeowners. The idea looks cool. However, it will be even coole
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by zillionize 9y ago
>>We are now raising a seed round of $1M, at a $12M cap. Have you joined YC? If yes $12m cap can make sense. Otherwise, as other angel investors said, you need to reduce it to half, namely, $6m cap.
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by zillionize 9y ago
Startup life is really hard - you will have to answer questions much harder than this every day if you do a startup. Therefore, based on my own first hand experience and observation on more than 100 startups I funded, only passion, determin
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by zillionize 9y ago
If Cruise is our first most notable investment, Zapier may be our second most notable investment. I say that because over the years, we saw Zapier is so rare in many aspects that we can hardly find any other startup like that, except Zeplin
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by zillionize 10y ago
Like marriage, it is worse to marry a wrong person than stay single. Therefore, if you do not really trust your cofounder, don't let her become your cofounder because a wrong cofounder is worse than a solo founder. As a seed round inve
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Drone delivery startup Flirtey (YC S15) raises $16M to become a next-gen UPS(techcrunch.com)
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by zillionize 10y ago
Awesome! When you raise your next round keep me posted - zillionize at gmail dot com.
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by zillionize 10y ago
Congrats! Flock vs Slack reminds me of Zendesk vs Freshdesk. Any thought on fundraising? Investors would beg to get in :)
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by zillionize 10y ago
Did you check out The Macro - http://themacro.com/ ? Yes the info disclosed by YC for each startup is still limited but better than nothing in the before.
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by zillionize 10y ago
>>what constitutes that homework for you This is the homework we do: https://www.zillionize.com/data/ >>do you feel like you can complete that homework prior to demo day Yes the time is very tight so we hav
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by zillionize 10y ago
I am an investor and my experience is, if you have done enough homework about the startup you want to meet, twenty minutes shall be long enough to clarify a few key things so you can make an informed decision.
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by zillionize 10y ago
Have you thought to do everything by software only? If yes that may help you acquire much more customers.
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How AR Startup Meta (YC S13) Built a Rival to HoloLens on the Cheap(forbes.com)
1 points by zillionize 11y ago|0 comments
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by zillionize 11y ago
"There is a tremendous amount of excitement about the top 1% of startups, but there are hundreds if not thousands more startups that will make their founders and investors rich." I cannot agree more with Justin and we have had sev
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Buttercoin Bids to Take US Business from Global Bitcoin Exchanges(coindesk.com)
2 points by zillionize 12y ago|0 comments