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Fast Company
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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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
| 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... |
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. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Elon Musk + Sam Altman Launch OpenAI Nonprofit That Will Use AI To "Benefit Humanity" A brand-new organization called OpenAI -- helmed by Elon Musk and a posse of prominent techies -- aims to use AI to "benefit humanity," without worrying about profit. |
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. |
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. |
