Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham announced this morning that the famed Silicon Valley startup incubator has begun accepting applications for its next class.
Applications open for Y Combinator's winter 2013 funding cycle: ycombinator.com/apply.html—
Paul Graham (@paulg) September 12, 2012
The announcement came in the thick of today’s Apple news, which is probably not an accident: A soft opening could help ease the start of the ever-growing deluge of applications that the program receives each season.
Backstage yesterday at the ongoing TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 conference we talked to YC partner Harj Taggar about the batch of startups that graduated out of Y Combinator last month in the incubator’s largest ever class and how it plans to handle its growth going forward. He also weighed in on the recent public drama between Y Combinator and Google Ventures. Check that out right here:
Y Combinator is a venture fund which focuses on seed investments to startup companies. It offers financing as well as business consulting along with other opportunities to 2-4 person companies looking to take an idea to a product. Y Combinator looks for companies with “good” ideas over companies with experience and a business model. The company made its first investments in Summer 2005. Y Combinator selects companies to finance and consult with twice a year. They are located in...
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