YC’s next batch deadline is coming up. Should you apply? The answer is YES.

If you’re in College or Graduate School and thinking about starting a company, then the summer is usually a perfect time to give it a try. Let everyone else sip wine in the Mediterranean, you have a company to build.

A great fundraise doesn’t make you fundable forever. Fortunes can rapidly change at a startup, so here's how to be prepared for a potentially tougher round next time.

Startups are hard, but you don’t need to deliberately suffer to succeed.

If you’re building a consumer company or a B2B SaaS company then the expectations have changed massively since the dawn of mainstream AI. Fast traction is no longer optional.

Meet Pankhuri Dudani, Co-Founder of Openhelix and a recipient of the Sterling Road Grant. A clinical dermatologist by background, Pankhuri is tackling one of the biggest gaps in healthcare—the broken communication between pharma companies and medical professionals.

Most founders love shipping new features, the feeling is intoxicating. But that doesn't mean it's guaranteed progress.

I meet a lot of talented founders who, frankly, need to work on more difficult problems. As a general rule, your idea should be to build something 10x better than what’s currently out there. Here’s why.

If you’re building a company taking on a hard science problem, there is a tendency to avoid near term deadlines, as your larger milestones are too far away. This is a mistake, here’s why.

I am always pushing founders in Europe to move to San Francisco. Just like if you want to be an A-List Actor, you should probably be in LA, if you want to be the best founder you can be, SF is the place.

Every founder wants to make rapid progress and a big part of that is setting ambitious goals.