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11/17/2024
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🌅 Golden Age of Building
Now is the best time in history to be a builder. Let's build things to make the country better. This Week at YC November 17th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Request For Startups Now is the best time in history
11/10/2024
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🔮 How To Build The Future: Sam Altman
On the origins of OpenAI, what's next for the company, and advice for founders navigating this massive platform shift. This Week at YC November 10th, 2024 ✨ The Latest How To Build The Future: Sam
11/3/2024
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🛰️ From Tiny Apartment to $1B Satellite Company
You don't need billions of dollars to start a hard tech company. Take Astranis for example. This Week at YC November 3rd, 2024 ✨ The Latest The 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model With 300 IQ Earlier
10/27/2024
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🧠 o1's Chain of Thought, Explained
OpenAI's newest model o1 is part of an entirely new class of models designed to reason. How does it work? We dive in. This Week at YC October 27th, 2024 ✨ The Latest o1's Chain of Thought,
10/21/2024
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✨ How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
With rapid advancements in LLMs, AI can now follow prompts to generate code and build functional custom software. This Week at YC October 21st, 2024 ✨ The Latest How AI Agents Can Build Your Whole App
10/20/2024
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💡 How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start?
Great startups are not born. They are forged. Tracking their origins gives you a peek at what your journey might be like. This Week at YC October 13th, 2024 ✨ The Latest How Do Billion Dollar Startups
10/6/2024
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🤖 Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1B SaaS
As LLM's continue to improve it's clear that vertical AI agents are key to the next gen of billion dollar SaaS opportunities. This Week at YC October 6th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Startup School is
9/29/2024
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🤝 How to Find a Co-Founder
Building a startup is hard, especially if you're trying to do it alone. This Week at YC September 29th, 2024 ✨ The Latest How to Find a Co-Founder Building a startup is hard, especially if you'
9/22/2024
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🌌 Reinventing AI Image Generation
Suhail Doshi has created a state-of-the-art AI image diffusion model with Playground v3. This is how he and his team did it. This Week at YC September 22nd, 2024 ✨ The Latest Reinventing AI Image
9/15/2024
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✉️ How to Write Emails That Actually Convert
Let's face it: most cold emails end up in the trash. But a well-crafted one could have a major impact on your startup and help you get new customers. This Week at YC September 15th, 2024 ✨ The
9/8/2024
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🧡 How YC Was Created with Jessica Livingston
Familiar with YC's lore? Co-founder Jessica Livingston shares the stories and decisions that would form the foundations of YC as we know it today. This Week at YC September 8th, 2024 ✨ The Latest
9/1/2024
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🔑 Cohort Retention for Startups
How do you know if you're making something people want? One of the best ways to measure is with cohort retention. This Week at YC September 1st, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events, YC
8/25/2024
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🔍 The AI Hype Cycle
Is the latest excitement just another round of dot-com or crypto style hype? The Lightcone hosts discuss. This Week at YC August 25th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events, YC content, and
8/20/2024
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🧠 Is AGI On The Way?
Gmail creator Paul Buchheit joins us for the first guest episode of the Lightcone to discuss open source, freedom, and AGI. This Week at YC August 18th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events
8/11/2024
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🟧 Applications are now open for the new YC Fall 2024 batch
We're running a YC batch this fall for the first time ever. Applications are now open! This Week at YC August 11th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events, YC content, and more The first-
8/4/2024
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💡Tarpit Ideas: The Sequel
Dalton and Michael revisit tarpit ideas and dispel some misconceptions. This Week at YC August 4th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events, YC content, and more Tarpit Ideas: The Sequel
7/29/2024
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🚀 Why Founders Should Launch Sooner Than They Think
Launches can be scary. But delaying them can stall the crucial lessons you could be learning. This Week at YC July 29th, 2024 ✨ The Latest Keep up with the batch, events, YC content, and more Startup
7/21/2024
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🤝 Enterprise Sales for Startups
Having led his company, Optimizely, to $100M ARR, Pete Koomen breaks down the enterprise sales funnel. This Week at YC July 21st, 2024 ✨ The Latest Featured content from the YC library and more First
7/7/2024
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💵 10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?
Do people still need to learn to code? The Lightcone crew weighs in This Week at YC July 7th, 2024 Hey all! Two of the mantras always on repeat at YC are: make something people want, and talk to your
6/23/2024
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🤑 What Is ZIRP And How Did It Poison Startups?
Dalton & Michael break down the economic phenomenon and the ripples it caused in the startup world. This Week at YC June 23rd, 2024 ZIRP. It's a funny-sounding acronym that you've probably