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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 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.  |
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 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 Jul/Aug 2012 Andrew Rice |
The Many Pivots Of Justin.tv: How A Livecam Show Became Home To Video Gaming Superstars Five years, four complete shifts in business plan: Entrepreneur Justin Kan will try anything to make his business work. And that's just the way they like it in the tech world.  |
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.  |
Entrepreneur November 2007 Sara Wilson |
Win Your Startup Capital A business contest lets wannabe tech entrepreneurs get in the startup game.  |
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 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.  |
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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...  |
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 April 2014 Austin Carr |
Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans Counting beds on offer, Airbnb is already the fifth-largest hotelier in the world, with unparalleled global reach. The startup, whose prices are at least one-sixth cheaper than its traditional rivals, expects to have 1 million listings by the end of 2014.  |
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 April 2015 J.J. McCorvey |
Dropbox Versus The World Dropbox has the distinction of being the only cloud service -- and perhaps the only startup -- ever to compete simultaneously against Apple ($748 billion market cap), Google ($369 billion), Microsoft ($357 billion), Amazon ($173 billion), and Tencent ($160 billion).  |
Inc. March 2008 Max Chafkin |
Anything Could Happen Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering your consciousness right... about... now. Why does this stuff happen? Because he lets it.  |
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.  |
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Dan Macsai |
The Anxieties Of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky charts his anxiety level since his rent-a-stranger's-apartment service began.  |
HBS Working Knowledge February 7, 2011 Carmen Nobel |
Creating the Founders' Dilemmas Course Students study the quandaries that virtually all entrepreneurs will face when trying to realize the dream of launching a start-up -- from deciding when to start the company to learning how to make a graceful exit.  |