Hacker News with Generative AI: Venture Capital

The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate (bloomberg.com)
The billion-dollar startup bubble is deflating, and more than $1 trillion in value is locked up in companies with dwindling prospects.

Startups, Venture Capital, Economics, Technology

41 points by kjhughes 6 days ago | 38 comments

Antithesis: Lessons from Launch (antithesis.com)
It’s basically a cliche at this point for founders to write the “my experiences from one year of blah” post. Not quite “our incredible journey”-level, but getting there. And why not? It’s pure Hacker News catnip, practically guaranteed to get you views from the people who run the companies that you sell to and buy from in the Great Venture Flywheel / Startup Circle of Life. So I suppose I have to do one.

Startups, Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, Web Development

24 points by Klaster_1 8 days ago | 2 comments

Startup Funding Roadmap (anyonyashraya.com)
This is a concise roadmap to help founders navigate the fundraising journey, from pre-seed to IPO. It provides actionable insights into funding sources, equity dilution, pros and cons, best practices, and common pitfalls, enabling founders to make informed decisions at every stage. Note: Beyond securing capital, fundraising is about finding strategic partners who align with your vision and can drive long-term growth.

Startup Funding, Venture Capital, Business, Finance, Entrepreneurship

10 points by KuriousCat 9 days ago | 4 comments

The Butter Thesis (2019) (nickgrossman.xyz)
At USV, we talk a lot about our investment thesis. The USV thesis is a set of ideas that has guided our investing over the years. It is a tool we use to help ourselves know what to look for, and to help companies who fit into it to find us.

Investing, Venture Capital, Business

21 points by SoKamil 10 days ago | 15 comments

Venture Capital Extremism (vcinfodocs.com)
Tech extremism emerges from the power grab of right-wing venture capitalists in the tech industry.

Venture Capital, Politics, Tech Industry

9 points by greenie_beans 14 days ago | 0 comments

Andreessen Horowitz stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny (techcrunch.com)
Andreessen Horowitz is defending its decision to hire Daniel Penny, according to an investor memo seen by The New York Times.

Venture Capital, Law, Technology, New York

16 points by jmyeet 15 days ago | 4 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors (nytimes.com)
Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times.

Venture Capital, Law, Business, Silicon Valley

21 points by jrflowers 15 days ago | 18 comments

You Can't "Win" in Tech Unless You Cheat (joanwestenberg.com)
PayPal started by paying people to sign up. Their viral growth came from essentially bribing users with $10 to join and $10 for each referral. That’s not innovation — it’s buying market share with venture capital.

Business, Technology, Startups, Marketing, Venture Capital

35 points by midzer 15 days ago | 25 comments

Andreessen Horowitz Defends Hiring of Daniel Penny to Its Investors (nytimes.com)
Partners at Andreessen Horowitz, the blue-chip venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, defended to investors their decision to hire Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide last year, according to an internal memo viewed by The New York Times.

Venture Capital, Law, Business, Politics, New York

15 points by Signez 15 days ago | 1 comments

Daniel Penny Gets Hired by Andreessen Horowitz (thefp.com)
In less than two months, Daniel Penny has gone from facing a potential 20 years in prison to landing a role at Andreessen Horowitz, the premier investment firm in Silicon Valley.

Venture Capital, Technology, News

68 points by solarpunk 17 days ago | 39 comments

Venture Capital Extremism (vcinfodocs.com)
Tech extremism emerges from the power grab of right-wing venture capitalists in the tech industry.

Venture Capital, Tech Industry, Politics

17 points by tomrod 17 days ago | 5 comments

Venture Capital Extremism (vcinfodocs.com)
Tech extremism emerges from the power grab of right-wing venture capitalists in the tech industry.

Venture Capital, Technology, Politics, Right-Wing Politics

10 points by sph 19 days ago | 2 comments

SoftBank in talks to invest up to $25B in OpenAI (ft.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Business, Investments, Venture Capital

9 points by jmsflknr 23 days ago | 4 comments

2025 will likely be another brutal year of failed startups, data suggests (techcrunch.com)
More startups shut down in 2024 than the year prior, according to multiple sources, and that’s not really a surprise considering the insane number of companies that were funded in the crazy days of 2020 and 2021.

Startups, Venture Capital, Economy, Predictions

9 points by pseudolus 25 days ago | 1 comments

Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital (pluralistic.net)
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us wish we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

Social Media, Venture Capital, Technology, User Experience

6 points by wslh 26 days ago | 1 comments

Why everyone in AI is freaking out about DeepSeek (venturebeat.com)
As of a few days ago, only the nerdiest of nerds (I say this as one) had ever heard of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI subsidiary of the equally evocatively named High-Flyer Capital Management, a quantitative analysis (or quant) firm that initially launched in 2015.

Artificial Intelligence, China, Venture Capital

31 points by nis0s 28 days ago | 6 comments

Billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia (hachyderm.io)

Billionaires, Venture Capital, Wikipedia, Technology, Social Impact

17 points by pabs3 29 days ago | 5 comments

I Won't Invest (2019) (davidjarvis.com)
Between the pre-seed and seed rounds for Griffin we pitched nearly 200 different investors. These are some of their reasons for saying no.

Venture Capital, Startups, Investment, Fundraising

18 points by dustingetz 30 days ago | 9 comments

Show HN: Chart of VCs Success Rate (mikealche.com)
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Startups, Venture Capital, Data Visualization

8 points by yoouareperfect 31 days ago | 4 comments

Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital (pluralistic.net)
Many of us have left the big social media platforms; far more of us wish we could leave them; and even those of us who've escaped from Facebook/Insta and Twitter still spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to get the people we care about off of them, too.

Social Media, Venture Capital, Technology

13 points by headalgorithm 32 days ago | 3 comments

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol (techcrunch.com)
Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday.

Social Media, Venture Capital, Decentralized Technologies

10 points by thunderbong 35 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese venture capitalists force failed founders on to debtor blacklist (ft.com)

Venture Capital, China, Finance, Business

8 points by walterbell 43 days ago | 2 comments

Chinese VCs go after personal assets of failed founders (techcrunch.com)
In the U.S., it’s accepted that most startups fail — and when that happens, VCs (generally) accept their losses and move on. But that’s not the case in China, where VCs are trying to claw back their investments in failed startups by pursuing the personal assets of their founders in court, The Financial Times reports.

Venture Capital, China, Startups, Law

11 points by thecolorblue 45 days ago | 0 comments

Silicon Valley Tech Investor Orchestrated Takedown Plot of Startup Toptal (cnbc.com)

Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, Startups, Business

39 points by persnicker 45 days ago | 7 comments

Chinese venture capitalists force failed founders on to debtor blacklist (ft.com)

Venture Capital, China, Finance, Business

4 points by brunohaid 46 days ago | 0 comments

Why we invested in Silicon Box and the advanced chiplet packaging (medium.com)
Why We Invested in Silicon Box and the Advanced Chiplet Packaging

Venture Capital, Semiconductors, Chip Packaging

23 points by kome 49 days ago | 6 comments

With Gaza war and Trump's return, Silicon Valley embraces a military Renaissance (972mag.com)
On Dec. 10, Israeli military officials, weapons manufacturers, and American venture capitalists gathered at Tel Aviv University for the first ever DefenseTech Summit.

Military, Technology, Politics, Israel, Venture Capital

6 points by cbHXBY1D 52 days ago | 1 comments

What Happened in 2024 (avc.xyz)
Some years are marked by one big thing that overshadows everything else. In tech, startups, and VC, 2024 was one of those years. The one big thing was Silicon Valley's hostile takeover of the federal government, via an infiltration of Donald Trump's MAGA movement, and Trump's subsequent thrashing of Joe Biden's "establishment" government in the November election.

Politics, Technology, Startups, Venture Capital

3 points by wslh 52 days ago | 0 comments

Marc Andreessen Warns Against 'Government-Protected Cartel' of Major AI (aicoin.com)
In a lengthy Twitter thread, Marc Andreessen—noted venture capitalist and co-founder and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz—laid out the case for allowing AI development, but warned about creating a “government-protected cartel.”