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Entrepreneur
November 2007
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Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game.   |
BusinessWeek
February 24, 2011
Brad Stone |
Paul Graham's Search for the Next Facebook Graham's Y Combinator is an early-stage investment firm and boot camp for entrepreneurs that uses "mass production techniques" in its search for and development of promising startups. |
Inc.
June 2009
Max Chafkin |
The Start-up Guru: Y Combinator's Paul Graham Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think. |
Inc.
June 2009
Max Chafkin |
10 Questions for Paul Graham A short interview with Paul Graham, whose company, Y Combinator, is a hybrid venture capital fund and business school that invests in, advises, and, literally, feeds 40 or so early-stage businesses a year. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Y Combinator Is Touring Colleges This Fall Partners at the firm and Y Combinator alumni are visiting six different universities in cities across North America starting this week, to scout for promising startups. |
Fast Company
May 2015
Max Chafkin |
Y Combinator President Sam Altman Is Dreaming Big The Silicon Valley startup factory that birthed Airbnb and Dropbox has grown even more ambitious under its new leader. |
Inc.
May 2007
Ryan McCarthy |
Thinking Small VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
Andy Louis-Charles |
Ignore Y Combinator at Your Own Risk Y Combinator is an incubator that finds itself aiding, abetting, and nurturing a clever crop of Web startups that are siphoning off the competitive moats of the Nasdaq 100 while simultaneously striking deals with them. |
Fast Company
February 2011
Farhad Manjoo |
How "Super Angel" Investors Are Reinventing the Startup Economy By being smaller, faster, and less demanding of entrepreneurs than VCs, super angels are getting first dibs on the best new ideas. |
Entrepreneur
February 2009
Sara Wilson |
Tech Hotbed: NYC Even before the financial mess, New York City's tech startup culture had been gaining ground as a growing number of tech startups started choosing the Big Apple as their city of residence. |
Wired
September 22, 2008
Clive Thompson |
Why Veteran Visionaries Will Save the World A recent study reports that older geeks are just as successful in developing high tech innovation as young geeks. |
Fast Company
Nikita Richardson |
How A New Investment Group Led By Female Twitter Execs Could Help Solve Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem It's a well-documented fact that it's much easier to break into the hyper-competitive tech world if you're a man, and there is a dearth of female-led VC funds, with only a handful making an impact. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
"Guys, Let's Grow The Hell Out Of This Company": How Y Combinator Startups Go Big Liz Wessel has a number in mind: a jaw-dropping digit that she believes will be significant enough to convince even the most skeptical audience that she's onto something big. |
BusinessWeek
March 11, 2010
Douglas MacMillan |
Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs The proposed StartUp Visa Act would open the door to foreign entrepreneurs who create jobs. |
Inc.
February 1, 2010
Kasey Wehrum |
How Should Goldman Sachs Spend Its $500 Million? The experts weigh in on Goldman Sachs' $500 million small-business initiative. |
Fast Company
June 2014
Max Chafkin |
The Ugly Truth About Silicon Valley's Diversity Problem Study after study has shown that startups with diverse teams fail less often and generate higher rates of return than companies managed by men alone. |
Inc.
November 2008 |
Blogger Logic: Avoiding "The Long No" To avoid a "no" after long months of meetings with investors, you should constantly look for signs of where you stand. |
Entrepreneur
August 2010
Gwen Moran |
Do You Believe in Super Angels? An early-stage investor by any name can be just as useful to funding your business. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
This Prosthetics Startup Shows How Software is Eating the World At Y Combinator there are more than a dozen startups developing sophisticated hardware products, biotech technologies, and even medical devices. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Ellen Pao Part Of A "Long Con" At Reddit? In a response to a Reddit thread titled "What's the best "long con" you ever pulled?," former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong spun a wild tale that almost seems plausible. |
Registered Rep.
March 20, 2013
Kador & Cohen |
The Devilish Details of Angel Investing Angel investing can be fraught with peril -- for both the investor and the entrepreneur. But the devil's in the details. Here's a guide for mixing business with family and friends. |
Entrepreneur
October 2008
Nichole L. Torres |
Surviving Business Boot Camp Programs nationwide offer budding entrepreneurs lessons in startup. |
Fast Company
Samantha Cole |
How A Startup Grows Up: Lessons From Airbnb's OpenAir Summit Startups can learn a lot from the leaders at a recent summit on the sharing economy. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
The difference between a joke and a billion dollar company isn't as big as you'd think Startup stories are often told in which the founders stumble into a big idea, but the Y Combinator model is different. At YC, founders are encouraged to find sometimes laughably small ideas that work well. |
The Motley Fool
May 30, 2007
Tom Taulli |
Foolish Book Review: "Founders at Work" This book by Jessica Livingston offers some fascinating stories of some of America's great start-ups. |
Entrepreneur
June 2004
Amanda C. Kooser |
How Tech Got Its Groove Back After the dotcom bust, the tech industry is picking itself up and dusting itself off for another dance--with the help of some innovative entrepreneurs. |
Entrepreneur
December 2009
Asheesh Advani |
A New Year, a New Strategy It's not all bad news on the financing front. Here are the top trends for 2010 and how to make the most of them. |
Entrepreneur
November 2009
Asheesh Advani |
The Angel in Your Pocket New federal rules are making personal credit a better option for startups. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Carol Tice |
Small Towns, Big Money Looking for capital? a new study shows that small towns might just be a VC paradise. |
Wired
April 2001 |
The Disposable Corporation Tech startups' life cycles get even shorter. As the pace of innovation increases, the useful life span of a given new product or service often decreases - and so does that of the company that makes it. Startups are still good business, but fewer will be built to last... |
Fast Company
April 2013
Farhad Manjoo |
When It Comes To Tech Investing, VCS Are Venturing Forth Cautiously Growing uncertainty in tech is creating chaos for startups, consumers, and investors. |
Fast Company
November 2015
Jillian Goodman |
Steve Huffman: "Reddit Has Been Home To Some Of The Most Authentic Conversations" Steve Huffman felt like he had a moral obligation to return to Reddit and try to fix it. |
BusinessWeek
December 31, 2008 |
How to Refurbish the U.S. Tech Industry A prescription for fixing the country's technology innovation machine. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 21, 2012
Garry Emmons |
How to Sink a Startup Noam Wasserman, author of the recently released book "The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup," discusses ill-advised entrepreneurial behavior. |
Fast Company
Dec 2013/Jan 2014
Skylar Bergl |
Most Productive People: Alexis Ohanian Do you sneer at multitabs, loathe push notifications, and grab each task with both hands? |
BusinessWeek
January 8, 2007
Spencer E. Ante |
The Return Of The Tech IPO Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000. |
Entrepreneur
July 2009
Jennifer Wang |
5 (More) Great Books on Entrepreneurship Once you've read the first 100, check out these other works of entrepreneurial wisdom. |
CIO
September 15, 2011
Tom Kaneshige |
Mobile Startups: Tip of the Iceberg, Say Venture Capitalists At this week's DEMO Fall 2011, mobile startups trying to bridge the physical and digital worlds often didn't aim high enough and received mixed reviews from venture capitalists and former entrepreneurs. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Michael A. Greeley |
Monsoon of Capital The private equity markets, both venture capital and growth equity, while characterized by a number of established firms, continue to struggle with how best to finance early-stage, risky bio-IT companies. |
BusinessWeek
May 22, 2006
Hibbard & Green |
It Feels Like 1998 All Over Again Are we or are we not in an Internet bubble? Signs of it in Silicon Valley are rising, but whether that's cause for concern is a matter of fierce debate. Concerns about a second bubble aren't baseless. Clearly, valuations of startups are rising. |
Investment Advisor
November 19, 2010
Jeff Joseph |
One Hundred Days of Job Growth Tactically, our tax policies need to do more today (and certainly beyond this coming Jan. 1) to incentivize angel investors to fund early-stage ventures than presently contemplated by our legislative class. |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
Sheree R. Curry |
A Shore Thing? Many startups are sending jobs overseas. But does offshoring help or hurt business? |
Popular Mechanics
September 22, 2008
Deborah Gage |
Analysts: Clean-Tech Startups Face Hurdles in Economic Scramble As the economy contracts and everybody cuts spending, the companies that power Silicon Valley -- the startups, venture capitalists, banks and big producers of technology -- are bound to be affected. |
Fast Company
February 2015
Butler & Tischler |
The Startup Revolution Is About To Surge Again What would it look like if big companies opened up their assets -- their brands, relationships, and distribution channels -- and partnered with founders to monetize them in new ways? |
Inc.
March 2009
Benjamin P. Gleitzman |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Saying All the Right Things MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst developed Lingt Language as a tool for teaching foreign languages. |
Fast Company
Matt Haber |
The Geniuses Behind All Those San Francisco Startups? They're Not Who You Think They Are San Francisco. It's gotten that you can't swing a corporate-logo-splashed swag bag in this town without hitting someone working on a startup. |
Entrepreneur
November 2003
David Worrell |
Seed Money VC financing for early-stage companies is back in bloom. |
Inc.
March 2009
Joel Spolsky |
How Hard Could It Be?: Start-up Static A new business is like a shortwave radio. You have to fiddle patiently with all the dials until you get the reception you want |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2010
Matt Shapiro |
Should It Be Called "Start-bucks?" With the java giant finally offering free Internet, Howard Schulz has just provided 11,000 free offices for startups. |
