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Principles of Pricing

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I’ve been building a database of successful companies

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How to design a referral program

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SaaS tools that get things done for tech startups

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Watching an acquirer ruin your company

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How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS

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Legends Solar – Buy operating solar panels on commercial solar farms

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Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity

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Startup tooling: our product management, sales, and marketing stack

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I switched my newsletters from Substack and Mailchimp to Buttondown

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We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR

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Pacaso is turning houses into corporations

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Tiny Acquisitions

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Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M

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Morning Brew went from college newsletter to $75M in 5 years

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I Bought a Business for $0

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No-code platform Webflow (YC) raises $140M at a $2.1B valuation

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I sold Baremetrics

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Product-market fit for a B2B company

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Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to power users

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How the Startup Slice Got Their First 1k Customers

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Wavve: making $76k a month turning podcasts into videos

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Website Builder Webflow (YC S13) Went from Near Bankruptcy to $72M Series A

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Building Lyft’s Marketing Automation Platform

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Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

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Startup Credits – Free/discounted plans for startups

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Munchery Shuts Down

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Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly

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America Is Drowning in Milk Nobody Wants

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Stripe has democratised online payments and reshaped the digital economy

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The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind the Unlikely Tech Unicorn MailChimp

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The rise and fall of Sugru

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Tech Startup Slice Helps Local Pizzerias Get Online

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Background checks pay for Checkr, which just raised $100M

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Pilot.com raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era

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Tech takes over: New York is the sector's second city

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Mattermark (YC S12) to shut down after selling to FullContact

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WeWork acquires Meetup.com

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Kickstarter launches Drip, a Patreon competitor

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Writer's Block, or the Wantrepreneur Blues

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Show HN: Trade your abandoned side projects on Borderline.biz

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Juicero May Be Feeling the Squeeze

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Opendoor, a startup worth emulating

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How Sidekiq makes $80,000 a month

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Solving the cash problems from self-funding rapid growth

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SoundCloud launches Go: a subscription service

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Powa: The startup that fell to earth

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SpoonRocket shuts down

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Get the Strategy Right and the Execution Is Easy

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Mixpanel Lays Off 18 Employees

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Layoffs Hit Gumroad as the E-Commerce Startup Restructures

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Kickstarter Focuses Its Mission on Altruism Over Profit

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How startup Fab died

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Teespring Says It's Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M

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Bannerman (YC S14) Delivers Bouncers On Demand

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I Sold My Startup for $25.5 Million

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Waze Co-Founder Skips Google to Try Startup World Again

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Braintree is giving $50k in processing to every startup

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Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides

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Why Don't Startups Get Their Users To Invest In Them?

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How To Go From $0 To $1,000,000 In Two Years

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“Working Too Hard And Not Getting Anywhere”

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Show HN: Incorporate your startup online with YC's forms (built by two lawyers)

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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud

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Show HN: MongoDB + open source e-commerce = Forward

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DeveloperAuction gets developers paid what they're worth

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The first open company

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SwipeGood (YC W11) Is Now Elastic, A Sales-As-A-Service Platform For Startups

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Refer.ly (YC S12) Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue

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Sortfolio: Going once, going twice...

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Pair (YC W12) raises $4.2M round of funding

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SEOmoz raises 18 million from Ignition and Foundry

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The Story of 2 $1 Million Projects in 24 Hours

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Gumroad Gets $1.1 Million To Turn Any Link Into A Payment System

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Curebit (YC W11) Raises $1.2 Million For Online Referral System

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Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable

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Wufoo Sold For $35 Mil. Here's The Story Behind Its Success.

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The $700 Million Yogurt Startup

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The $100K Taxi Ride, One Year Later

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Startup Weebly takes profitable leap forward

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Munch On Me (YC S11) Helps You Discover Tasty Dishes

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ZeroCater (YC W11) Raises $1.5 Million For No-Hassle Office Lunches

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Octopart, The Little Startup That Hung In There

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The investment that didn't happen

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Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games

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Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree

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Grubwithus (YC W11) Brings Strangers Together Over Social Meals

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Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

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How CRE made SEOmoz $1 million

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Listia (YC S09) Is An Awesome Way To Give And Get Free Stuff

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Weebly (YC winter 07) scores 1 million users, reaches profitability

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Notes on Buttondown.com

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