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Fast Company
April 2009
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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.   |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Inc.
May 2007
Ryan McCarthy |
Thinking Small VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. |
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
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
February 1, 2011
Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture. |
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. |
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 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. |
CIO
September 1, 2011
Kristin Burnham |
LinkedIn Deciphers the Entrepreneur What sets entrepreneurs apart and where do they come from? LinkedIn scoured more than 120 million profiles to paint the picture of today's entrepreneur. Here's what they found. |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 4, 2012 |
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors In his new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, HBS Associate Professor Noam Wasserman tells readers how to anticipate, avoid, and, if necessary, recover from the landmines that can destroy a nascent company before it has the chance to thrive. |
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
July 2006 |
Doing the Numbers VC funding had another fruitful year, nurturing young and established companies alike. |
Inc.
October 2008
Donna Fenn |
Cool, Determined & Under 30 Combined, they manage nearly 600 employees and have raised more than $100 million from investors. They have graduated from some of the very best schools in the country. They are collaborative, creative, and confident. And here's one more fact: All of them were born after October 31, 1978. |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
Justin Hibbard |
Startup Millionaires Even Before the IPO These days private equity firms are buying entrepreneurs' stock before their companies reach Wall Street. And Internet ad companies are leading the trend. But not all VCs are thrilled about what's happening. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Fast Company
Rebecca Greenfield |
Fab CEO Sent This Terrifying Memo In A Bizarre Attempt To Rally His Staff We have to give Jason Goldberg credit for pointing out that all his employees' hard work for a Fab comeback might not ever pay off. |
Inc.
March 2007
Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs. |
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 |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 29, 2006
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want? Entrepreneurs are often motivated by the potential of money and control, but very few ever achieve both. |
Inc.
March 2008
Ryan McCarthy |
Will Work for Equity Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. |
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 1, 2010
Darren Dahl |
How to Read a Term Sheet Looking for venture capital? Here's what you need to know about liquidation preferences and preferred stock |
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. |
Entrepreneur
May 2005
John F. Ince |
Back in Black The Venture Capital industry is fattening up again -- but what does this mean for the entrepreneur? For the short term anyway, an increase in the supply of available capital. |
