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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. |
Fast Company
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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. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2009
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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
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. |
Inc.
May 2007
Ryan McCarthy |
Thinking Small VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. |
Inc.
June 2009
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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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
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
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
February 2011
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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. |
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. |
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
June 2014
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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. |
Entrepreneur
October 2008
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Surviving Business Boot Camp Programs nationwide offer budding entrepreneurs lessons in startup. |
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
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
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. |
Inc.
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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. |
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20 of the Top Chinese Fund Management Companies The Chinese mutual fund industry is currently 1/10th of the size of the U.S. industry, but is growing fast. Here are 20 of the top Chinese fund management companies, which also include joint ventures with some big Western banks. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
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Momentum Ideas: 10 Golden Cross Stocks With Strong Profitability One technical signal is the "golden cross," in which a stock's 50-day moving average crosses above its 200-day MA, indicating recent upside momentum that may persist. |
The Motley Fool
September 13, 2011
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Holiday Shopping: Top 9 Retail Stocks with Encouraging Profitability Trends Is this a signal of more good news to come during this year's holiday season? |
The Motley Fool
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Europe Downgrade: Here Are 10 Stocks Showing Resilience to Europe's Meltdown Looking for stocks that might be immune to the unfolding crisis in Europe? |
BusinessWeek
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Visas for Foreign Entrepreneurs The proposed StartUp Visa Act would open the door to foreign entrepreneurs who create jobs. |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2010
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8 Companies Raising Receivables Flags Ahead of Earnings It's worth digging deeper to find out the cause of such rapid AR growth. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
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Strong U.S. Jobs Growth: Will These Profitable Companies Benefit? Are these companies on your watch list? |
BusinessWeek
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A Boomer's Guide to Communicating with Gen X and Gen Y There are plenty of differences between Gen X and Gen Y, and it often falls on boomers to help both groups navigate the workplace. So here's a guide for dealing with younger members of the team. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
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Investing 101: MegaCap Tech Stocks With Encouraging DuPont Trends Interested in large tech companies with solid return on equity trends? You've come to the right place. |
The Motley Fool
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10 Increasingly Shorted Stocks With Accounts Receivable Flags Short-sellers don't seem to the trust the revenue quality of these names: RPC... Amedisys... Mistras Group... Magnum Hunter Resources... IPC The Hospitalist Company... K12... FX Energy... Cimarex Energy... Sonoco Products... KIT digital... |
