Y Combinator

Shop Main Street From Your Street

Bryce Longton | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Startup, Shopping, Startup Offices, Y Combinator, Small Business News and Trends, Soho, Startups, New York, Small Business America, Small Business, Shoptiques, Small Business News

That jacket right there. That's the one you wore right out of the store in Tuscany. And those funky sunglasses? Bought from a street vendor in Seoul. ...

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The eBook Publishing Revolution Has Just Begun

John F. Ince | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Y Combinator, Mckinsey, Self Publishing, Publishing, Stanford, Ebooks, Books News

Strategic questions need to be answered. Does a eBook publisher focus on marketing, or content creation, or formatting?

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The Management Team While Building Product: Keep It Small

Fred Wilson | Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Foursquare, Etsy, Small Business, Startup Management Team, Startup, Y Combinator, New Product Development, Small Business America, Startup Team, Small Business News

The first stage of a startup, what I call the Building Product stage, is management light. The team should be small.

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What Comes Next: Finding Signals From The Startup Noise

Christina Cacioppo | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Startup Accelerators, Small Business, Y Combinator, Venture Capital, Union Square Ventures, Iphone, Internet, Small Business America, Venture Capitalist, Startup, Accelerator, Startups, Entrepreneur, Internet Entrepreneur, Techstars, Small Business News

Over the past few months, I've seen over 160 companies come through eight different accelerator programs. It's a skewed group, but it captures the zeitgeist of a certain segment of the tech industry.

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Facebook Announcement Signals the Age of Discovery

Garren Givens | Posted 11.22.2011

Discovery has been a feature of the Internet for a long time, but there's an important difference between "today's most-emailed stories" and content that relates to the stories I've read, liked, or reviewed. This is discovery based on me.

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Dot Com Casualty Returns from the Dead

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Hank Williams Entrepreneur, Minority Startups, Newme, Kloud Co, Y Combinator, NewMedia Accelerator, Minority Entrepreneurs, Hank Williams, Small Business America, Black Voices News

Despite the fact that he has no relation to the country legend, Hank Williams was on some level destined for the music industry. Williams, an engineer...

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Rebooting A Nation: Egyptian Startups Collaborate With American Entrepreneurs

Alexis Ohanian | Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: Reddit, Small Business America, Small Business, Egypt Revolution, Egypt, Revolution, Y Combinator, Startups, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Young Entrepreneur Council, Video, Business News

I love tech startups. And the chance to use my rather specific focus to assist a selection of tech entrepreneurs in the middle of rebooting their entire nation was something I couldn't pass up.

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The Harvard Of Silicon Valley?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Entrepreneur Incubator, Yuri Milner, Angel Investors, Y Combinator, Technology News, Paul Graham, Innovation, Venture Capital, Technology, Small Business America, Startup Incubator, Silicon Valley, Business News

Last week, 60 companies began a three month startup boot camp at Silicon Valley's Y Combinator. If all goes well, they should be worth millions by the...

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29 Things I Think I Learned At TechCrunch Disrupt

OPEN Forum | Jason Del Rey | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Techcrunch Disrupt, Startups, The Daily, Happy Toy Machine, Technology, Techcrunch, Ashton Kutcher, Business News

On Tuesday, I checked out TechCrunch Disrupt, a startup conference hosted by Michael Arrington's popular blog TechCrunch. The day's events included Ch...

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Thoughts on the Various Types of Entrepreneurial Mentorship

Dave Lerner | Posted 05.25.2011

This is part of my ongoing Series on Mentorship. I've been doing a lot of thinking about mentorship and mentorship programs of late. In that I pro...

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Drop Out Of School. Find An Incubator. Act Crazy. The Rest Is All Commentary.

Seth Priebatsch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business-Incubator, Google Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Y Combinator, Venture Capital, Scvngr, Small Business America, Business News

Ten days before my 20th birthday, I received a check for $750,000. On my 21st, I received a check for $4 million. As for my 22nd birthday, well ... that's a long ways away. Who knows what'll happen?

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The Idea For My Startup Came At A Music Festival

Amanda Peyton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mobile Phones, Location Based Services, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Messageparty, Business News

The idea for MessageParty, like most startups, came from a combination of personal frustration and curiosity. I was at a large music festival and ...

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Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously

Antonio Garcia-Martinez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unplanned Pregnancy, Y Combinator, Pregnancy, Startups, Tech Startups, Technology, Business News

Filling out an online form can change your life. I filled out two such forms. One was a dating profile at Match.com. The second was the application to Y Combinator. Little did I know how these forms would conspire to change everything.

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For Flight Search, It Doesn't Get More Hip Than Hipmunk

Courtney Boyd Myers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reddit, Y-Combinator, Alexis Ohanian, Steve Hoffman, Adam Goldstein, Gmail, Hipmunk, Technology News

Hipmunk is not finding flights for you that no one else can but it is making the process of choosing a flight smarter, faster and easier by presenting an intuitive interface to visualize options ad-free.

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The Next Rise of Silicon Valley or Why I Quit My Job to Solve Facebook's Death Problem

Rudy Adler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Start-Ups, Y Combinator, Jimmy Wales, Facebook, Death, 1000memories, Old Spice, Web 2.0, Social Media, Mckinsey, Ron Conway, Wieden Kennedy, Technology, Silicon Valley, Technology News

This year, 1.5 million Facebook users will pass away but their Facebook profiles will live on. This is a growing problem and people are naturally asking: can major social media sites handle their dead?

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Foreclosures Boost Rental Site Listings

Bloomberg | Ari Levy and Dan Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Hotels, Airbnb, Rental Market, Homes, Craigslist, HomeAway.Com, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Bed and Breakfast, Business News

For Airbnb -- along with Craigslist and rival rental sites like HomeAway.com Inc. -- the threat of foreclosures is bringing a surge of listings. Local...

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Y Combinator's Paul Graham Wants To Mass Produce Start-ups

Inc. Article | By: Max Chafkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scribd, Xobni, Sam Altman, Justintv, Max Chafkin, Loopt, Paul Graham, Y Combinator, Viaweb, Venture Capital, Inc. Magazine, Start-Up Guru, Redditt, Business News

Paul Graham's company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so ear...

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