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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.  |
BusinessWeek March 12, 2007 Spencer E. Ante |
Techies Across The Pond Europe's lively startup culture is attracting American talent.  |
BusinessWeek December 8, 2003 Robert D. Hof |
India And Silicon Valley: Now The R&D Flows Both Ways Indian talent is adding vitality throughout Silicon Valley, where it's getting hard to find an info-tech startup that doesn't have some research and development in such places as Bangalore, Bombay, or Hyderabad.  |
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.  |
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 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."  |
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.  |
Entrepreneur April 2009 Brad Feld |
Beware the Arrogant Venture Capitalist Their weaknesses may vary, but there's typically a common characteristic not-great venture capitalists share: arrogance.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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 May 2000 Katharine Mieszkowski |
How to Speed Up Your Startup When it comes to launching Internet companies, you can't be fast enough. Here are lessons in speed from a leading VC, the founder of an e-business incubator, and a team of anthropologists studying work and life in Silicon Valley.  |
BusinessWeek April 21, 2011 Douglas MacMillan |
Educational Tech Gets a Second Look Venture funds are spending big on educational tech startups as broadband networks and digital devices reach more students.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Entrepreneur June 2007 |
Reel 'Em In Do you have the right bait to entice investors? Get them hooked - and get money for your business - with these tips.  |
Wired April 2004 Gary Rivlin |
The Roots of Bust 2.0 Suddenly, venture capital is growing on trees. But the cash glut could crash the Valley again.  |
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.  |
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?  |
Salon.com July 19, 2000 Janelle Brown & Katharine Mieszkowski |
Score: Men 97, Women 3 Men entrepreneurs still receive almost all the venture capital. What will it take for women to catch up?  |
Fast Company Vivian Giang |
Why The Few Women Venture Capitalists Often Give Up Only 2.7% of all venture-backed companies have a woman CEO. That's 183 out of 6,517 companies or $1.5 billion out of the $50.8 billion invested between 2011 and 2013.  |
Entrepreneur March 2007 Guy Kawasaki |
Lies, Lies, Lies! In the quest for capital, many entrepreneurs stretch the truth. One venture capitalist calls them out.  |
Entrepreneur February 2009 Sara Wilson |
Tech Hotbed: NYC Even before the financial mess, New York City's tech startup culture had been gaining ground as a growing number of tech startups started choosing the Big Apple as their city of residence.  |
Inc. March 2007 Amy Feldman |
Putting Founders First How one VC Firm coddles its CEOs.  |
Global Services June 14, 2007 Adyasha Sinha |
Immigrant Entrepreneurs: What's their Education Quotient? A recent report tracks the educational backgrounds of immigrant entrepreneurs and found a strong correlation between educational attainment (particularly in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and entrepreneurship.  |
HBS Working Knowledge May 2, 2005 Roberts & Barley |
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? Four venture capitalists explain how they evaluate potential investments.  |
Entrepreneur June 2010 Kate Lister |
The $48,000 Question Where, exactly, do startups get their money? The answer may surprise you.  |
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Pauline Parry |
Springboard for New Companies in San Diego Long gone are the days when venture capitalists could be seduced with little more than a good idea, two smart people, and a hastily assembled PowerPoint presentation. A new program flourishing in San Diego may offer entrepreneurs hope.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 |
Venture Capitalists They're not in the news as much, but they're still around -- and important.  |
HBS Working Knowledge February 2, 2009 Sarah Jane Gilbert |
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs When it comes to entrepreneurship, nothing says success like a track record of previous wins.  |
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 April 25, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Silicon Valley Bank's Diversified Success A comeback in M&A and venture capital financings should bode well for the bank that once specialized in tech start-ups. Investors, take note.  |
Entrepreneur February 2009 Guy Kawasaki |
Top 9 Lies of Venture Capitalists Here's a look at the meanings behind what VCs say.  |
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.  |
Popular Mechanics September 22, 2008 Deborah Gage |
Analysts: Clean-Tech Startups Face Hurdles in Economic Scramble As the economy contracts and everybody cuts spending, the companies that power Silicon Valley -- the startups, venture capitalists, banks and big producers of technology -- are bound to be affected.  |
Investment Advisor February 1, 2011 Jeff Joseph |
A Great (and Surprising) Venture Investment Source Many financial advisors are beginning to venture into venture.  |
Entrepreneur December 2009 Jennifer Wang |
Dearly Beloved, Please Send Cash A Palo Alto company found a new way to raise venture capital: Get married.  |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Galante & Eichenbaum |
Credit Card Companies Woo Programmers To compete online and in mobile, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express need independent software.  |
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.  |
Fast Company January 2001 George Anders & Polly LaBarre |
What's Next for the Net? Just what does it mean to have an "Internet strategy" these days? Which ideas are venture capitalists still prepared to fund? How do organizations attract and retain the best people in a brutal business climate? Here is tough talk from a fast crowd about the changing future of the Internet economy...  |
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.  |
Bio-IT World June 2005 Michael A. Greeley |
Who Wants to Be a VC? The objective is to stay relevant to a venture firm while the industry contracts. Develop the case that you can help create great companies (and great returns) because you have built a Rolodex and an ability to identify patterns of success.  |
Inc. May 1, 2010 Bobbie Gossage |
An Insider's Guide to Venture Capital Financing Jeffrey Bussgang, author of Mastering the VC Game and a principal at Flybridge Capital Partners, on how to get funded.  |
Fast Company December 2004 Alan Deutschman |
Offshoring Creativity As new funding fuels innovation, Silicon Valley venture capital insiders see India and China ultimately eclipsing America as technology markets -- with local companies dominating.  |
Fast Company Vivian Giang |
4 Countries That Are Leaving Silicon Valley In Their Tracks All of these countries have a lot to prove if they're going to be the next Silicon Valley, but the fervor in their entrepreneurship spirit is definitely heard and felt.  |
BusinessWeek December 5, 2005 Farzad & Elgin |
Googling For Gold With a market cap in orbit and more cash than a small nation, Google's heft is altering the tech industry's behavior. But when does its long-awaited shopping spree begin?  |
Entrepreneur October 2009 Asheesh Advani |
Your Startup May Be Worth Less Than You Think The recession has resulted in a drop in the valuation of startups.  |
Bio-IT World Jul/Aug 2006 Michael A. Greeley |
Monsoon of Capital The private equity markets, both venture capital and growth equity, while characterized by a number of established firms, continue to struggle with how best to finance early-stage, risky bio-IT companies.  |