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Last year in May, YC sent an email[0] to its startups asking them to “plan for the worst” and try to be 'default alive' for 24 months. We took that advice seriously and drastically reduced our spend, which extended our runway at the expense of growth. I was wondering if other founders are still running
Over two-thirds of companies said they have taken such steps like withdrawing cash reserves, changing HQ location outside Israel, relocation of employees and conducting layoffsThe judicial overhaul has led 68% of Israeli startup companies to take active legal and financial steps, like withdrawing cash reserves, changing headquarter location outside Israel, relocation of employees and conducting
On a recent afternoon in San Francisco, I chatted with a prominent venture capitalist who is bullish on AI. But he wouldn’t tell me which companies he’s investing in. They’re all in “stealth” mode, he said. Why? The ideas are too easy to copy.In the mad rush to ride the AI boom, one of the
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Polestar became the latest electric-vehicle manufacturer to cut its outlook for 2023Updated May 11, 2023 1:16 pm ET“The auto industry is just too tough.” That was Warren Buffett’s response to a question about the opportunities presented by the shift to electric vehicles at Berksh
When the money flows freely, and there’s a strong cachet to having tons of open positions, you can be forgiven to think that the individual productivity on a product team just doesn’t matter. So much time is spent coordinating the work anyway. Who cares if the stack you’re using takes twice the number of people
After decades as the default, dot coms are no longer used by most new startups, and alternative TLDs are the new default.In the beginning, in the early ’90’s when the internet was young and everything seemed possible, there were only a handful of top-level domains (or TLDs). You weren’t starting a non-profit or government, so