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DEFAULT
EssayOct 1, 2015

Default Alive or Default Dead?

Paul Graham

EssaySep 29, 2015

Refutation: An acquisition is always a failure

Independent or acquired, companies always evolve, and not always for the better. Smart exits can create opportunities for everyone involved.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

ITS
EssayAug 1, 2015

Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice

Paul Graham

CHANGE
EssayAug 1, 2015

Change Your Name

Paul Graham

EssayFeb 1, 2015

What Microsoft Is this the Altair Basic of?

Paul Graham

DONT
EssayJan 1, 2015

Don't Talk to Corp Dev

Paul Graham

DOESNT
EssayJan 1, 2015

What Doesn't Seem Like Work?

Paul Graham

RONCO
EssayJan 1, 2015

The Ronco Principle

Paul Graham

KNOW
EssayDec 1, 2014

How You Know

Paul Graham

FATAL
EssayDec 1, 2014

The Fatal Pinch

Paul Graham

EXPERT
EssayDec 1, 2014

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

Paul Graham

LET
EssayDec 1, 2014

Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In

Paul Graham

MEAN
EssayNov 1, 2014

Mean People Fail

Paul Graham

BEFORE
EssayOct 1, 2014

Before the Startup

Paul Graham

RUDOLPH
EssayDec 24, 2013

Ho Rudolph

Rudolph claps back.

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

DONT
EssayOct 7, 2013

Why I don't like the LTV metric (LifeTime Value)

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

RAISE
EssaySep 1, 2013

How to Raise Money

Paul Graham

COC
EssayAug 6, 2013

COC: A new metric for measuring cancellations in SaaS business models

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

CONVINCE
EssayAug 1, 2013

How to Convince Investors

Paul Graham

INVESTOR
EssayAug 1, 2013

Investor Herd Dynamics

Paul Graham

THINGS
EssayJul 1, 2013

Do Things that Don't Scale

Paul Graham

STARTUP
EssayJun 1, 2013

Startup Investing Trends

Paul Graham

GET
EssayNov 1, 2012

How to Get Startup Ideas

Paul Graham

HARDWARE
EssayOct 1, 2012

The Hardware Renaissance

Paul Graham

STARTUP
EssaySep 1, 2012

Startup = Growth

Paul Graham

BLACK
EssaySep 1, 2012

Black Swan Farming

Paul Graham

WHICH
EssayMay 1, 2012

Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

TOP
EssayApr 1, 2012

The Top of My Todo List

Paul Graham

DEFINING
EssayMar 1, 2012

Defining Property

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2012

Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas

Paul Graham

EssayMar 1, 2012

How Y Combinator Started

Paul Graham

WRITING
EssayMar 1, 2012

Writing and Speaking

Paul Graham

WORD
EssayJan 1, 2012

A Word to the Resourceful

Paul Graham

SCHLEP
EssayJan 1, 2012

Schlep Blindness

Paul Graham

HIRING
EssayDec 12, 2011

Hiring Employee #1

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

STARTUP
EssayOct 1, 2011

Why Startup Hubs Work

Paul Graham

BALLAD
EssaySep 26, 2011

Ballad of The Lean Startup

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

PATENT
EssayAug 1, 2011

The Patent Pledge

Paul Graham

SUBJECT
EssayMar 1, 2011

Subject: Airbnb

Paul Graham

FOUNDER
EssayDec 1, 2010

Founder Control

Paul Graham

TABLETS
EssayDec 1, 2010

Tablets

Paul Graham

BUILD
EssayOct 11, 2010

If you build it, they won't come, unless…

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

WHERE
EssayOct 1, 2010

Where to See Silicon Valley

Paul Graham

LOOK
EssayOct 1, 2010

What We Look for in Founders

Paul Graham

NEW
EssayOct 1, 2010

The New Funding Landscape

Paul Graham

HIGH
EssaySep 1, 2010

High Resolution Fundraising

Paul Graham

FUTURE
EssayAug 1, 2010

The Future of Startup Funding

Paul Graham

HAPPENED
EssayAug 1, 2010

What Happened to Yahoo

Paul Graham

REAL
EssayJul 19, 2010

Real Unfair Advantages

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

TOP
EssayJul 1, 2010

The Top Idea in Your Mind

Paul Graham

LOSE
EssayJul 1, 2010

How to Lose Time and Money

Paul Graham

EssayJul 1, 2010

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

Paul Graham

TELLING
EssayMay 31, 2010

Telling the 800-lb Gorilla to Shove it up his Ass

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

ORGANIC
EssayApr 1, 2010

Organic Startup Ideas

Paul Graham

ENOUGH
EssayFeb 22, 2010

Enough with the "expert" guilt

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

APPLES
EssayNov 1, 2009

Apple's Mistake

Paul Graham

STARTUPS
EssayOct 1, 2009

What Startups Are Really Like

Paul Graham

PUT
EssaySep 21, 2009

Put down the compiler until you learn why they're not buying

A Smart Bear · Jason Cohen

PERSUADE
EssaySep 1, 2009

Persuade xor Discover

Paul Graham

ANATOMY
EssaySep 1, 2009

The Anatomy of Determination

Paul Graham

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