Chris Barber

Breakout List is your “guide to high potential & high growth startups.” We help engineers, salespeople and other people in tech accelerate their learning and career trajectory. Investors know lots about the potential of a given startup - they’ve likely seen or been told their private financial metrics. Candidates deserve better information on companies. They’re betting their career. YC...

YC S15 demo day part one is today. We wanted an easier way to browse all the companies, so we made this. A new list of YC companies. It's 'New YC List' because YC List was taken, though is no longer updated :-) Plus, it had a good ring to it. Edit: If you're interested in helping out on older YC companies, email editor@breakoutlist.com; someone will be happy to have in depth conversations about...

My good friend Ash Bhat has just launched Rive. He was happy to discover that as of last night, Apple has decided to feature it in the App Store. Rive does two things. Firstly, it makes it easy to send contact information. Think of it as a replacement for giving someone your number. Secondly, it allows you to meet other early adopters. Rive shows you when people using the app are nearby. Lastly...

This is a list of career advice aimed at ambitious people. We compiled this from across the web — founders, investors, and so on. Meta-advice: post people aren’t very thoughtful about their careers. Being thoughtful is generally good advice.

Great idea, and awesome work @howietl et al. Would be cool to see a product/promo page in addition to the help article Will you guys let people create a form first, and then work with Airtable after that, in addition to the table -> form workflow?

The list is compiled by surveying venture and angel investors. We’ve also added career notes for engineers/designers. We had an impressive number of requests to pay to be on the list — it goes without saying that those requests were and will be ignored.

This is a brilliant idea. Thank you for building this @cam_pj. What exactly does the leaderboard show?