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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.   |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
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.
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. |
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
April 2009
Kate Bonamici Flaim |
Startup School Trains Early-Stage Tech Companies Jessica Livingston, along with Trevor Blackwell, Paul Graham, and Robert Morris, cofounded Y Combinator, which trains early-stage tech startups for a "semester" to help them navigate companyhood. Alumni include leaders of social news site Reddit, acquired by Conde Nast in 2006. |
Inc.
May 2007
Ryan McCarthy |
Thinking Small VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. |
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. |
Fast Company
Max Chafkin |
Getting The Band Back Together: Why The Justin.TV Mafia Returned To Y Combinator The Justin.TV story may be the ur-example of YC helping founders turn dumb ideas into brilliant businesses. |
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
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. |
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. |
Fast Company
Jul/Aug 2012
Andrew Rice |
The Many Pivots Of Justin.tv: How A Livecam Show Became Home To Video Gaming Superstars Five years, four complete shifts in business plan: Entrepreneur Justin Kan will try anything to make his business work. And that's just the way they like it in the tech world. |
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. |
Inc.
March 2008
Ryan McCarthy |
Will Work for Equity Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
Inc.
November 1, 2009
Max Chafkin |
19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who just might help you run a better business |
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.
October 1, 2009
Jason Del Rey |
Entrepreneurs in the News Facebook has acquired FriendFeed... Mint.com, the online personal finance service, has raised $14 million... Ted Nierenberg, founder of the Scandinavian-style tableware company Dansk International Designs, has died... etc. |
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 |
20 Moments From The Past 20 Years That Transformed Business Forever Netscape's triumph signaled the arrival of a new business model... Craigslist revealed the power and value of free information... The launch of 1-Click was just the start of Amazon's speed quest... |
Inc.
April 2009
Ryan McCarthy |
That Certain Something: Influential Entrepreneurs Six experts talk about who they think are the five most interesting entrepreneurs of the past 30 years. |
Inc.
May 2009 |
Paul Graham's 13 Pointers for Launching a Successful Startup Venture capitalist and e-commerce pioneer Paul Graham gives 13 pointers, including "Get ramen profitable." |
Salon.com
November 21, 2000
David Rubien |
Rev. Billy Graham At 82, the Elvis (and Marshall McLuhan) of preachers is still the king of ecumenical evangelism. |
Salon.com
July 18, 2001
Harry Jaffe |
Katharine the great Kay Graham's unintentional rise to glory inspired the Washington Post to a greatness the paper has never again achieved since she stepped away from it. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 25, 2009
Tim Beyers |
How Android Could Beat the iPhone This two-horse race should get tighter due to the different ways that Google and Apple interact with app developers. |
Inc.
September 1, 2009 |
Mail Letters to the Editor: "You Do It For Family"... "The Soul of a New Start-up Machine"... In praise of second chances... The pursuit of happiness... Correction regarding Alibaba.com escrow service... |
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. |
Inc.
January 2009
Adam Bluestein et al. |
The Ultimate Business Tune-up for Times Like These We asked our favorite entrepreneurs for the tips and tricks they have used to pilot their businesses through difficult times. The result: 23 things you can do right now to energize your employees, wow your customers, and get your business back on track. |
Inc.
May 1, 2010 |
Blogger Logic: The School of Hard Knocks WePay co-founder Rich Aberman on the trials of launching a business. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2011
Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
Benjamin Graham's Equation: Finding the Most Undervalued High Yield Dividend Stocks One way to determine a stock's value. |
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
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2011
Chuck Saletta |
Would Benjamin Graham Approve of These Stocks? We've created the beginnings of a portfolio based on Benjamin Graham's intrinsic value investing criteria. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 8, 2010
Jennifer Demski |
Winning Back Homeschoolers With the defection of local families causing a steep dip in enrollment, a rural Ohio district goes virtual to stem the tide. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2012
Diana Britton |
Yield of Dreams: The ABCs of Teaming with CPAs If you're thinking about teaming up, especially with a CPA, there are some important lessons here. |
The Motley Fool
April 15, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Looking for Graham Crackers Searching for old-school value stocks in a hot market is like hunting those mythical snipe. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Matt Koppenheffer |
The Great Investing Wisdom That Wall Street Forgot It's a key part of Ben Graham's investing formula. With thousands of stocks out there, how do we separate the value plays from the throwaways? |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2004
David Forrest |
Valuing the Biggest and the Best Some old-school insight into the new economy stocks. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2010
Esterhuizen & Sellitti |
8 Companies Raising Receivables Flags Ahead of Earnings It's worth digging deeper to find out the cause of such rapid AR growth. |
The Motley Fool
April 22, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Getting Foolish With Graham Benjamin Graham loosens up his tie and his standards to lay out a strategy for finding stocks for the "enterprising investor." Does screening by his numbers yield anything interesting? You bet. |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2005
Tim Beyers |
2 Things I Learned From Benjamin Graham Warren Buffett's mentor pioneered the idea of buying stocks on sale, and his books have provided dozens of lessons for investors over the years. The author shares two that have changed his investment life. |
