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How I Learned to Code 30 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter. Back in 2006, I snuck out of my finance job and stood at a Midtown Ma...
The Manual-First Startup 7 May 2013 | 08:21 pm
It was February 2010. We were noticing that a company named Groupon was taking off and a whole new industry was booming along with it. Our idea for Yipit was simple, aggregate all these daily deals b...
Lessons Learned Raising $6 Million 16 Apr 2013 | 08:40 pm
After raising our $1.3 million seed round for Yipit, we raised $6 million a year later from Highland Capital, RRE, IA Ventures, DFJ Gotham and others. It turns out that the process of raising a $1.3 ...
Everyone at Yipit is Now Learning to Code 7 Feb 2013 | 08:47 pm
The spread of the internet will put people into two groups: “People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.” - Marc Andreessen Five years ago, I was firmly in ...
The Depressing Day After You Get TechCrunched 19 Nov 2012 | 11:03 pm
If you’re a first-time reader, you can get future posts by subscribing via email or following me on Twitter. Note: This post is loosely based on our experience 2 years ago when TechCrunch covered Yip...
The 6 Books That Actually Saved Our Startup 14 Aug 2012 | 11:24 pm
After about 6 months of struggling to get something off the ground, I realized a sobering truth: I had no idea what I was doing. My startup instincts were terrible. So, I went on a mission to learn fr...
Advice I Wish I Could Have Given Myself 5 Years Ago 7 Aug 2012 | 12:14 am
Since going down the startup path, I’ve made so many mistakes, struggled so many times, failed in almost every way you can. But, we turned the corner after a few years of hard work. We’re now 25 peopl...
The Other Reason We Were in Stealth Mode 11 Jul 2012 | 02:53 am
When we quit our jobs to start a new company, the first question we always got: “So, what are you working on?” It’s actually a question I hated getting. It puts you on the spot. You feel like you’re...
Many-to-Many Sharing 17 May 2012 | 06:17 am
You can put all of today’s apps into two user acquisition buckets. There are the apps where people push their actions to Facebook and their Facebook friends sign-up for the app (e.g. Instagram, Fours...
Y-Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Isn’t a Bad Idea, It’s Awesome 8 May 2012 | 02:42 am
A few days ago, Facebook Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz said that Y-Combinator’s “No Idea” round for entrepreneurs is “really wrong”. He further says “the only reason you should become an entrepreneur i...
