🧑🏽‍💻 Pre-launch startup goals

How do you build a minimum viable product (MVP) for your startup idea? Using examples from real YC companies, Michael walks through how to determine your initial feature set, build prototypes and demos for testing, and present your MVP to early customers and investors.

📆 Open Source Software startups meetup

We're hosting a small reception at our office in San Francisco, on April 11th, for people who are interested in the growing trend of Open Source Software startups. We've funded over 75 OSS companies to date and we’re especially excited about them.

If you’re interested in starting an OSS company someday, join us to connect and learn with other founders in the space.

🚀 The Launchpad

🌎 YC Community

🔥 Hacker News

1. The Door Close Button (computer.rip)
2. My startup banking story (mitchellh.com)
3. Things I learned after getting users (basementcommunity.bearblog.dev)
4. How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) (cs.princeton.edu)
5. Something Pretty Right: The History and Legacy of Visual Basic (retool.com)
6. Negativity drives online news consumption (nature.com)
7. Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market (dagster.io)
8. The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge (thomask.sdf.org)
9. More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships (wsj.com)
10. People had to be convinced of the usefulness of electricity (smithsonianmag.com)

💸 Money Moves