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 founders...

One of our Y Combinator batch mates from the summer of 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 to...

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

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 the studio...

As a follow up 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. How do we still make things...

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 of...