Brokers and Landlords

Yesterday we discussed one of the original discount real estate brokerage businesses from the Dot Com 1.0 Bubble. To be fair, the founders probably came out well - a success story from a Y Combinator definition, because the...

One of our Y Combinator batch mates way back in Summer 2009 was a company called InstantQ, founded by Dana Levine and Jeff Shi. They were an early version of Groupon, allowing restaurants to fine tune pricing specific...

We previously discussed why brokers are necessary in the NYC apartment rental scene - they make deals happen and save everyone a lot of time. Unfortunately, some bad apples give everyone in the business a negative reputation. Over the...

The Flex bedroom concept has been around forever: converting an extra alcove or living room into an extra bedroom using temporary walls or dividers. Maybe thousands of years ago, cavemen would roll large home large boulders, turning...

As a followup to yesterday's classic Y Combinator advice on how not to die, today we discuss the primary mantra from Paul Graham and the other YC partners: Make Something People Want   Every YC participants gets a Make Something...

The top voted article on Hacker News caught my attention today. It's actually an old Paul Graham essay from well over 10 years ago, but one that I used to read every few months during the early days...