Startups blogs

Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, writes essays on startups, programming, wealth, and independent thinking.

Top post: The Submarine (2005)

The Startup was a Medium publication with articles from many authors on programming, startups, and technology.

Top post: Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot

Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, blogs about startups, investing, and technology trends.

Top post: Venture capital returns

The company blog of 37signals, makers of Basecamp, on bootstrapped business, product design, and their books.

Top post: Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013

The blog of Basecamp (formerly 37signals), where founders write about running a profitable software company and startup culture.

Top post: When I think of Snapchat's new potential $10B valuation, I am reminded of this

Steve Blank, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and educator, writes about startups, customer development, and the history of Silicon Valley.

Top post: "Secret" History of Silicon Valley (2008)

Y Combinator's blog, with startup advice, funding terms, and announcements about Hacker News and the accelerator.

Top post: How to Choose Domain Extensions for an International Audience

Derek Sivers, founder of CD Baby, writes short essays on business, creativity, and life, and keeps notes on books he has read.

Top post: Ideas are just a multiplier of execution

Mark Suster, a venture capitalist, writes about startups, fundraising, valuations, sales, and founder decisions.

Top post: Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

Seth Godin writes short daily posts on marketing, ideas, work, and how people make choices.

Top post: Don't Shave That Yak

First Round Review is the content arm of venture firm First Round Capital, with startup advice on product, hiring, and management.

Top post: How To Find Product/Market Fit — A Step By Step Guide

Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, writes essays on startups, productivity, and the future of AI and superintelligence.

Top post: Employee Equity

Jason Cohen writes about startups, bootstrapping and business strategy, and founded WP Engine; the blog also explains color vision.

Top post: Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

Jacques Mattheij, a Dutch software entrepreneur and HN regular, writes about projects, consulting, privacy, and his early web video company.

Top post: The Unofficial HN FAQ

Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek, writes about lifestyle design, entrepreneurship, fitness, learning techniques, and his podcast.

Top post: From Geek to Freak: How I Gained 34 lbs. of Muscle in 4 Weeks

Chris Dixon, a venture capitalist, writes about startups, technology trends, and investing, with essays on new technologies and network effects.

Top post: The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

A Medium publication of opinion essays on startups, technology, education, and culture, by Jean-Louis Gassée-era tech and design writers.

Top post: Stop working so hard

Brad Feld, a venture capitalist and Techstars co-founder, writes about startups, SaaS metrics, term sheets, and venture funds.

Top post: The Rule of 40% for a Healthy SaaS Company (2015)

Tom Tunguz is a venture capitalist who writes about startup metrics, SaaS economics, and data, often backed by his own analysis.

Top post: Ratio Of Engineers To Sales People In Billion Dollar SaaS Startups

The blog of Zapier, an automation service that connects web apps, with guides on remote work and tooling.

Top post: Guide to Remote Work

Auth0's company blog covers identity and authentication for developers, including JWT vulnerabilities, JavaScript history and engineering hiring.

Top post: Auth0 announces a free production ready free plan and a free unlimited oss plan

OnStartups is Dharmesh Shah's blog on startup advice, covering pricing, press coverage, sales and product decisions.

Top post: Secrets Of Freemium Pricing: Make The Cheapskates Pay

Buttondown's blog comes from a small newsletter tool built by Justin Duke, with posts on software bugs, JavaScript history and tooling.

Top post: The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

The Mission is a Medium publication with essays on startups, sales, personal growth, and technology, by various contributors.

Top post: The greatest sales deck I've ever seen (2016)

Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo, writes about startups, traction, search engine architecture, privacy, and open source funding.

Top post: Ask YC/HN Archive

Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and investor, writes on business, careers, startups, and the stock market.

Top post: Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort

Segment's company blog on customer data infrastructure, event delivery, architecture decisions, and engineering costs.

Top post: A million-dollar engineering problem

Michael O. Church wrote essays on software careers, startups, venture capital, management, and the Gervais Principle.

Top post: Don’t waste your time in crappy startup jobs

Venture Hacks, run by Nivi and Naval Ravikant, offers practical advice for startup founders on fundraising, term sheets, and early products.

Top post: The Option Pool Shuffle (2007)

Robert Scoble is a tech blogger who writes about Silicon Valley startups, social networks, and new consumer technology.

Top post: Silicon Valley places that Paul Graham didn’t cover

On Startups is a Medium publication of essays by founders and marketers on building companies, product launches, and startup failure.

Top post: Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

Andrew Chen, a startup investor and former Uber executive, writes on growth, user engagement, product metrics, and startup funding.

Top post: Why investors don’t fund dating

Ben Horowitz, venture capitalist and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, writes about running startups, CEOs, and management.

Top post: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company (2010)

A Medium publication where startup founders and engineers share lessons from building products, including Evan Williams and Bonobos' Andy Dunn.

Top post: The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas

Fog Creek Software's company blog, covering FogBugz, Kiln, Trello, sales, and running a software company.

Top post: The Trello Tech Stack

Tumblr archive collecting startup shutdown announcements that use the phrase "our incredible journey" to describe acquisitions and closures.

Top post: What Is An Incredible Journey?

Eric Ries writes on startup methodology, including minimum viable products, customer development, pivots and root cause analysis.

Top post: Building a minimum viable product

James Altucher, entrepreneur and author, writes personal essays on money, failure, entrepreneurship, and creativity.

Top post: How to be THE LUCKIEST GUY ON THE PLANET in 4 Easy Steps

HubSpot's company blog, covering marketing, sales, landing pages, A/B testing, and business writing.

Top post: 8 Brilliant Landing Page Examples You Need to See

Maciej Ceglowski writes about running Pinboard, a bookmarking service, along with hosting, social web, and startup lessons.

Top post: Don't Be A Free User

Startup Grind is a Medium publication with articles on startups, software engineering, SEO, press, and entrepreneurship.

Top post: I Got Scammed by a Silicon Valley Startup

Kagi's blog covers its paid, ad-free search engine, with posts on AI features, privacy, the Orion browser and company growth.

Top post: Kagi Small Web (2023)

Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist and former Apple evangelist, offers startup advice on pitches, fundraising, and business plans.

Top post: The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

Slava Akhmechet, co-founder of RethinkDB, writes about Lisp, functional programming, startups, and engineering management.

Top post: The Nature of Lisp

Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub co-founder and creator of Jekyll and SemVer, writes about software practices, open source, and startups.

Top post: Readme Driven Development

Buffer's company blog publishes posts on startup growth, social media marketing, productivity, and work habits.

Top post: Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it

Nathan Barry is a designer and entrepreneur who writes about selling books, bootstrapping software, and building a creator business.

Top post: The ladders of wealth creation: a step-by-step roadmap to building wealth

Intercom's company blog covers product design, software engineering practice, startup growth and churn, and the future of apps.

Top post: Your product is already obsolete

Retool's company blog covers internal-tool building, low-code, and short histories of products like Visual Basic, Yahoo Pipes, SAP, and Salesforce.

Top post: What's SAP?

Medium publication of essays on startups, careers, productivity and learning, with provocative titles aimed at ambitious readers.

Top post: What are people working on in coffee shops?

Engineering and product blog of Braintree, a payment processing company, including posts on running high-volume PostgreSQL.

Top post: Braintree's open for business in Canada and Europe

Patrick McKenzie (patio11) writes on software consulting, pricing, selling to large organizations and running a software business.

Top post: How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

Ben Kuhn, a tech worker, writes personal essays on startups, writing, work habits, programming and home setups.

Top post: Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors

PostHog, an open-source product analytics company, publishes its handbook, pay calculator, company story and product posts.

Top post: PostHog Company Handbook

Algolia's company blog covers its hosted search API, how its search engine indexes and queries, and front-end performance.

Top post: Algolia New Pricing

Packy McCormick writes a newsletter analyzing tech companies, business strategy, and trends in startups, energy, and the internet.

Top post: The Great Online Game

Triplebyte's blog covers its engineer hiring process, data on interview performance, and which YC companies are hiring.

Top post: Privacy center

Continuations is the blog of Albert Wenger, a venture capitalist who writes about crypto, technology, economics, and computer science basics.

Top post: Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

Amy Hoy writes about building and selling your own small products, bootstrapped startups, and avoiding venture-funded startup culture.

Top post: Amy Hoy: Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You

Eric Sink, a software developer and company founder, writes about version control, the browser wars, programming careers and small software businesses.

Top post: Memoirs from the Browser Wars (2003)