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How May Ph.D. Startup Founders Build for the Long term?

Entrepreneur's Handbook

boom, a startup is born… And if you take a long view of their [founders] career, they’re missing out on the depth of things, experience, and authenticity of experience that I think informs the most interesting category-defining companies out there.” founders could build startups for the long term, based on these trends.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

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In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help.

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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

Both Sides of the Table

We have an entire generation of startup founders who don’t have muscle memory from getting their burn rates back into shape from 2008/09 or 2001-2005. And will produce healthier cohorts of startups that get back some of the magic of being scrappy and shed some of the extra pounds we gained when the market was ebullient.

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Exploring the many faces of sidewalk delivery robots with Cartken’s Anjali Jindal Naik

TechCrunch

Like many startup founders, Anjali Jindal Naik, co-founder and COO of autonomous sidewalk robot maker Cartken, was raised by entrepreneurs. Back in 2005, that meant working on ringtones for mobile phones, and even trying, and failing, to stream Indian concerts to mobile phones in the U.S.

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Building for the future

Y Combinator

YC was founded in 2005 as an antidote to the classic venture capital firm. PG, Jessica, Trevor, and Robert decided to fund hackers and thereby enable the next generation of startup founders who would understand technology and its capabilities.

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YC is CRISPR for Startups

Y Combinator

Last week, we launched our Summer 2021 batch here at Y Combinator, the 33rd batch since our founding in 2005. People often believe that YC’s raison d’etre is Demo Day and fundraising — and that founders’ singular goal in applying to YC and completing our program is to increase their probability of executing a successful fundraise.

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Getting to know YC's newest Group Partner, David Lieb

Y Combinator

While there I worked in what would become Sebastian Thrun’s AI research lab — he was one of the co-founders of Google X, and their self-driving car project that became Waymo. I went back to Google for a bit and I had that realization that I wanted to be working with startup founders again. Oh man, so many things.

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