John Milinovich
John Milinovich

John Milinovich

Data-informed dreamer. Building Plato, a a software-enabled design agency for startups. Formerly of Pinterest, URX, Google, Yahoo and UCLA.

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John Milinovich
Apr 15, 2016 · 5 min read

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…

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John Milinovich
May 2, 2017 · 7 min read

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…

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John Milinovich
Sep 17, 2015 · 1 min read

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.

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John Milinovich
May 25, 2015 · 5 min read

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…

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John Milinovich
Jul 12, 2014 · 9 min read

People and Pine Cones: URX’s Y Combinator Story

taking a step back to reflect on URX’s first 9 months.

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