John Milinovich

How to ace your YC interview

Spring has sprung, and the smell of fresh YC applications is in the air. It’s that special time that happens…

My biggest product strategy lesson learned from operating and selling URX (YC S13)

It’s been one year since I was a startup founder/CEO. On May 2, 2016, we announced Pinterest’s acquisition of URX and began the next step in our journey. In that moment it was hard to…

Good Idea, Bad Startup

I had the privilege of being a guest lecturer at UCLA earlier this year to their Economics 106E: Startups class. It’s incredibly rewarding to be able to give back to my alma mater and help inspire/educate the next generation of entrepreneurs.

7 lessons learned growing from 4 to 20 people

In URX’s first 2 years, we grew from 4 co-founders to a 20-person engineering, product and business team. With this growth, many of our internal processes and communication channels broke. It didn’t feel like we were moving as fast as we were before…