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Nate Matherson
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Nate Matherson
@NateMatherson
Head of Growth @numeral
- One of the best things about being a @ycombinator company is that you get access to the YC internal software and tools. You get: - an investor database —> honest reviews for basically every investor/angel/fund you’d want to talk with, and some that you don’t - bookface —> YC’s
- First-time startup founder PSA: please don’t pay someone to help you raise money
- It is @ycombinator application week for the W24 batch. The deadline for on-time applications is October 13. As far as the application itself goes, if I've got one piece of advice to give, I'd say this: keep your responses short and focused. Don't use 400 words when 200 words
- My co-founder Matt and I have been working together for about 10 years. He’s also the best man at my wedding in 54 days. Startups are hard and I got lucky. I got a fantastic co-founder, CTO, and a best friend. Pivoting to @GoPositional was a big decision for us. And incredibly
- 📉Real-world example of the impact of creating full blog posts/content with ChatGPT... I chatted with a company today that created blogs exclusively with generative AI, and things worked and then quickly didn't.
- One of my favorite pieces of advice from our @ycombinator partners was to: Launch now, and then keep launching (it's basically free). By my count, we "launched" 16 times. 🚀 - We launched on Bookface (YC's internal community) - We launched on Launch YC - We launched on Hacker
- My @ycombinator Starter Pack 🧡 We use most of these tools every day: - @Stripe: billing, payments - @Rippling: payroll, benefits (eg insurance) - @JuneDotSo: customer analytics - @usepylon: customer support, specifically Slack channel management - @traceloopdev: LLM
- Throwback pic of Matt and me during @ycombinator W16. YC has grown a lot since then, and they have been an incredible partner to us. YC is accepting applications for their S23 batch right now. The deadline is Friday, April 7th: ycombinator.com/apply
- It's @ycombinator demo day! Go W24! 📈🧡 Throwback pic of me on stage at YC's W16 demo day. I was so nervous.
- We made it! Today is @GoPositional's public launch day! Go sign-up! 📈 But in all seriousness, getting here has been a long road. We did a very hard pivot into Positional 13 months ago. We had spent two years building something that people didn’t want, and we decided to return
- VC: I was an operator for four years before getting into VC. Our firm has 27 years of operator experience. Me: You mean you had a job for four years? Nice. I was an operator in the rug department at the IKEA store in East Palo Alto for three years.
- I closed the biggest transaction of my life two weeks ago. It was a long time coming too. 10-years in the "deals expected to close" stage of the pipeline. Lots of follow-ups. Being a startup founder's significant other is really hard. And Emma has been the best partner to me
- Does anyone want to take a wild guess as to how many @Numeral customers are in Whole Foods? This is one of my favorites... Graza. We handle their sales tax on the ecommerce side of things. Think: sales tax filings, registrations, and not just in the US, but also globally.
