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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.
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
November 2007
Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game. |
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
October 2008
Nichole L. Torres |
Surviving Business Boot Camp Programs nationwide offer budding entrepreneurs lessons in startup. |
Inc.
May 2007
Ryan McCarthy |
Thinking Small VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. |
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 |
"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.
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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
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
January 2003
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Back to the Garage Silicon Valley optimists say that now is a great time to start a new business. Everything's cheap, there's surplus talent, and as the veterans will tell you, "The tourists have all gone home." |
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
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? |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
February 20, 2006
Ben Elgin |
A Search Engine For Every Subject Google and Yahoo rule, but a flock of upstarts is attempting to infuse human preferences into computer algorithms to pinpoint relevant information better. |
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.
May 15, 2000
Steven Berglas |
The Next Big Next Big Thing ...Forget about Cisco, Intel, or Oracle drawing talent from across the nation with the lure of cutting-edge careers. By 2001 the knowledge workers will be flocking to the gene-hunting companies... |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 25, 2014
John Kador |
REP. Index: The Rise of Entrepreneurs With entrepreneurship expanding every day, advisors ought to know who they will be dealing with. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010
Asheesh Advani |
Assets, Assets, Everywhere Don't wait for capital to grow - use the people you have around you to make it happen. |
Wired
March 2000 |
Hey, I Just Work Here Harvard undergrad Geoff Cook wants the diploma. As long as it doesn't interfere with his Net startup. |
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.
March 2008
Ryan McCarthy |
Will Work for Equity Why Arizona Bay started taking stock from its customers instead of cash. |
Entrepreneur
June 2005
Rieva Lesonsky |
A Group of Greats Entrepreneurs comprise an incredible, diverse community. |
Entrepreneur
March 2004 |
Reality Check Entrepreneurs share a common dream: to succeed. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 13, 2014
Roberts & Davis |
Family Businesses Need Entrepreneurs for Long-Run Success Families that want to stay in business for generations don't have a choice but to encourage entrepreneurship in and out of their family company, say Michael Roberts and John Davis. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2006
Sheryl Garrett |
The True Entrepreneur Most people work for themselves to make more money and have more control, but being a successful entrepreneur involves a lot more. |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Ready to Rumble? Today's economy is in a turnaround, but we need entrepreneurs to keep the momentum going. Get your company geared up to take on the challenge. |
