August 19th, 2009

Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day

I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley. The turnout today is huge — VCs representing billions of dollars in managed funds are here, with investors from US Venture Partners, XG Ventures, Founder’s Fund, Greylock Ventures, First Round Capital… → Read More

August 6th, 2009

YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule

Whoever manages to change the nature of content display on the Web from a search problem to a recommender problem will reap tremendous rewards.

That quote, by Greg Linden, the man behind Amazon’s recommendation system, is the dogma of Directed Edge, a new Y Combinator-backed startup in the recommendation space. Amazon, of course does product comparisons, but there’s no reason recommendations… → Read More