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Presenting Airbnb’s 20th Known Acquisition: HotelTonight
If you’re looking for a last-minute hotel booking app, Airbnb just acquired it. According to the New York Times, Airbnb bought HotelTonight, its second announced acquisition in 2019. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more
A founder’s guide to reference calls
References can be an important part of any decision-making process. Whether you’re evaluating investors and non-execs, hiring for a new role, or fact-checking a potential co-founder, reference calls can provide comfort as well as test or reinforce your assessment. Read more
Pitchbook – European venture report 2018
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Series A Term sheet
Need help with your term sheet? Take a look at YCombinator’s standard template. For more info, check out their blog on standard term sheets.
How we put together our progression frameworks
We’ve been putting together progression frameworks for all the different disciplines across the company. They help us make sure we’re taking a consistent approach to the way we evaluate and pay our staff, and help people understand how to progress in their work. Read more
A Standard and Clean Series A Term Sheet
While working with companies in YC’s Series A program, we’ve noticed a common problem: founders don’t know what “good” looks like in a term sheet. This makes sense, because it is often, literally, the first time in their careers that they’ve seen one. Read more
Posts by The Startup Girl, Resources
Top podcasts to listen to
With so much information available out there, it’s hard to know where to concentrate your efforts. In my resources channel you will see a list of books/articles/blogs/publications to follow. For now, here are some top podcasts I listen to which are all related to start ups! A16Z: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a16z/id842818711?mt=2 How I built this: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/how-i-built-this-with-guy-raz/id1150510297?mt=2 The twenty […]
Hyped startup accelerator Entrepreneur First is struggling at scale
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A comparison of digital banks Monzo, Starling, Revolut and N26
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