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500 Global
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500 Global is the company blog at 500.co, writing about startups and business. Since 2011, 80 different Hacker News readers have linked it 84 times, most often “Making Changes at 500”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
500 Global (formerly 500 Startups) is a venture capital firm with $2.0B¹ in AUM investing in founders with a global outlook building fast-growing startups.
Most-linked posts?
- Making Changes at 5003 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-06-30
- Free legal docs for startup founders and investors2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-07-03
- The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conversion2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-18
What Hacker News says?
I feel deeply uncomfortable on 500 Startups positions on this ( https://500.co/making-changes-at-500/ ) for four reasons: 1) 500Startups considered these issues to be serious enough to remove McClure from his role but didn't publicly disclose this. This meant that he presumably could continue to meet female founders and other WIT while still appearing to be in a position of power. 2) A number of LPs in 500 have stat…
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on “Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment”Submitted Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders as a story · 131 points
HN discussionHeads are already rolling https://500.co/making-changes-at-500/ https://medium.com/@sacca/i-have-more-work-to-do-c775c5d56ca...
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on “Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment”Submitted The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Pricing for Conversion as a story · 94 points
HN discussionWhether you have an advantage or disadvantage depends on your goal. If you want a series of potentially-fun lottery tickets in industries and teams you choose, you have an advantage. If you want any return (and I mean any, as in, recovering any capital), you have 3 huge disadvantages: insufficient diversification[1], a lack of dealflow, particularly great deals, and inexperience evaluating and participating in other…
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on “Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business”Submitted 500 Startups Open for Applications as a story · 69 points
HN discussionThey were also among the first venture firms to run a syndicate focused on women founders https://500.co/500-women/
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on “McClure steps back at 500Startups after internal sexual misconduct investigation”Submitted Making Changes at 500 as a story · 37 points
HN discussionDon't ask us, just have a conversation with your wife, see how she feels. If you can pitch your wife you can pitch a VC. https://500.co/theglobalvc/how-to-pitch-a-vc
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on “Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?”Submitted Mobile SEO for Beginners: How to Improve App Store Search Ranking as a story · 34 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing this! I checked out your pricing plans and the way you differentiate plans based on visitors / day jumped out at me since it goes against advice I read recently from the UserVoice team. They used to price based on number of users who can vote but (in their own words)... "This was a huge failure. It created what I call a success penalty: the more successful you were in activating your users to give…
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on “Launching a product in just 3652 days”Submitted The Data Behind Purchasing Behavior at UserVoice – Part 2 as a story · 28 points
HN discussionbut our MISSION is to groom ugly ducklings. Then why do you make it so hard to touch base?[1] [1] http://500.co
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on “Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds.”Submitted IOS6 and iPhone 5 App Store Discoverability: What changed? as a story · 28 points
HN discussionRob Walling of Startups for the Rest of Us discussed the first of a two-part article on SaaS pricing¹ by Richard White of UserVoice in episode 153². The podcast also covered collecting billing info in episode 179³ and briefly discussed handling credit card expirations in episode 184⁴. ¹ http://500.co/2013/07/18/the-data-behind-purchasing-behavior... ² http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-153-s... ³…
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on “Managing Pricing”Submitted 500 Combinators – Announcing the Merger of 500 Startups and Y Combinator as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted Free legal docs for startup founders and investors as a story · 19 points
HN discussionQuite a few according to the infographic linked to in their FAQ: http://500.co/2012/04/06/visualizing-the-last-18-months-of-5...
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on “500 Startups Open for Applications”Submitted Why does 500 Startups' www point here? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionBecause the video page doesn't give any info, here is the blurb... Wed, Jan 25 from 12-4pm and Thurs, Jan 26 from 5-9pm. 500 Startups Demo Day is an invite-only showing for our 3rd batch (Fall/Winter 2011) of accelerator companies. This event is primarily for accredited investors, 500 Startups Mentors & Advisors. To find out more about the companies visit: http://500.co/accelerator/accelerator-startups/ source: http…
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on “500 Startups Demo Day Winter 2011 - Live”Submitted Launch or Die at a Startup Weekend Near You as a story · 16 points
HN discussionMore info here: http://500.co/invest "To learn more about our fund offerings, please provide us with some information about yourself and your interests ... If you are selected, you will receive access to our investor presentation and related fund materials via SeedInvest..."
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on “500 Startups to openly solicit for new seed fund”Submitted Traction and Sustainable Growth – A How-to Guide for Startups as a story · 15 points
HN discussionHow about building an open source activity stream app ? http://500.co/2011/02/08/build-a-killer-product-faster-the-s... Use Twitter Bootstrap for the UI and just have a simple generic REST service you can push activity events to. This would also allow you to get some exposure into WebSockets. Maybe even try and do it in Play, Grails, Vert.x etc for something different. You could even turn it into a little startup.
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on “Ask HN: Anything that you want built from 2 Java programmers free of charge?”Submitted 500 Startups Announces 'KISS' - Free legal docs for founders and investors as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIt's really disappointing that they didn't even look at 500 startups, one of the few VC's who've done a genuinely good job at getting diversity of partners. http://500.co/team/
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on “"VC Diversity Final Exhibits" slides by Social+Capital”Submitted How We Pivoted Right After 500 Startups’ Demo Day – and Survived as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHave you tried looking at venture websites? They often have a job board for their portfolio companies and I know for a fact that startups are desperate for interns Some examples: http://www.trueventures.com/jobs/ http://500.co/startups
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on “Ask HN: Resources for finding internships?”Submitted Scaling Venture Capital as a story · 8 points
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