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Startup Financial Services Companies Come Of Age(techcrunch.com)
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The ambulance dilemma: Making the decision to call for one in the US(medium.com)
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PR Advice from Facebook’s Head of Tech Communications(firstround.com)
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Rapid Scaling for Startups(firstround.com)
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Vygotsky: Children as Apprentices(slideshare.net)
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5 Pitch Tips for Entrepreneurs Who Don’t Like Investor Pitching(sofi.com)
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by zt 13y ago
As do other partners. This was a different block though, one that our house was on.
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by zt 13y ago
(I'm the author) Sorry for my lack of clarity here. We weren't pitching customers in Mountain View, we were just walking around a block a few hundred times -- talking and thinking with each other.
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by zt 13y ago
Woah woah. I've never sold a company before. Dan was the COO of Giftly, which sold.
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by zt 13y ago
It is hard to get in to YC without something, but we didn't have a demo. You can read our whole app at: http://blog.zactownsend.com/our-yc-s13-application In my YC class, I would say the median age was roughly mine: 28
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by zt 13y ago
Well you get $14-20k + an $80k note, so you can easily pay two-three people minimum wage (plus rent) for summer.
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How Modern Marketplaces Like Uber and Airbnb Build Trust to Achieve Liquidity(firstround.com)
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Going Through Y Combinator (YC S13): Lessons Learned(blog.zactownsend.com)
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Break Up the Bank? It’s Not for You to Ask(nytimes.com)
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A Psychologist In Y Combinator, And His Mission To Revolutionize Therapy(fastcolabs.com)
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by zt 13y ago
Speaking of which, we could use some help with hiring, Leo. :)
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My Management Lessons from Google, Apple, Dropbox, Twitter and Square(firstround.com)
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by zt 13y ago
http://blog.zactownsend.com/our-yc-s13-application
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by zt 13y ago
Payments. Loans. Corporate Finance. Those all sound necessary, ya. I think the product plan and it's rollout is really the secret sauce - even in a world where execution is everything.
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by zt 13y ago
I'd love to pick your brain. I've chatted some with Roelof and Dana about x.com but I think it was actually before their time. I'd really like to unpack that history a little bit and understand the problems. One obvious diffe
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by zt 13y ago
I wouldn't call that article the most accurate written about Standard Treasury.
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by zt 13y ago
Thanks for the encouragement Josh! We raised a round post-YC. Oh, and we have revenue too. We're up to eight people and have a long runway. Buying a bank would take a different sort of capital though. One has to think about working wi
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by zt 13y ago
I'm the author. I wouldn't agree. If you built a bank, you aren't subject to the same money transmission regulations. You're subject to many other regulations...
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Crisis Management From the Man Who Saved eBay(firstround.com)
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by zt 13y ago
Of all the companies founded since 2000, these are the following companies that are worth more than $10B: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, WorkDay, and ... WhatsApp.
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by zt 13y ago
Let's assume that Sequia owned 25% of WhatsApp for their $8M investment. That means that they turned $8M in to $4,000M in three years.
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by zt 13y ago
I have known the Abacus guys for awhile. Their product is cool, solves a real problem, and has seen some great traction. It's a classic innovators solution type product: limit the feature set, have a wonderful product, and sell slightl
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by zt 13y ago
I always think that speculation about YC's fundraising value obscures the correct causal link. YC doesn't make fundraising easier, per se, it makes you build a more valuable company. That makes fundraising easier. I get some varia
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VCs Start Pining to Own a Bank(bankinnovation.net)
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Silicon Valley Vies for Larger Role in National Politics(nymag.com)
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