One has to appreciate how Paul Graham built Y Combinator into the world’s flagship accelerator. In fact, I have yet to meet a founder who regrets joining the program. But after stepping away from th
There are few people in technology more infuriating than Y Combinator's Paul Graham, who earlier this month dropped a brilliant summary and analysis of the ongoing refragmentation of modern societies,
Garry Tan is leaving the accelerator and investment firm Y Combinator after a four-year stint with the outfit. Tan had previously cofounded the easy-to-use blogging service Posterous, which was back
Ron Conway, Tencent and Paul Graham aren't getting their money back, and that's the point. They're part of today's $3.5 million round that's actually a donation to fund the operations of Watsi, Y Comb
Why are there so embarrassingly few women in the tech industry? Repeat after me, robotically, defensively: "It's a pipeline problem!" So says David Cohen of TechStars, echoing many others, e.g. Paul G
Clever launched out of Y Combinator in 2012 on a mission to help K-12 schools bring the latest education software into their classrooms. By giving districts a central way to manage student and teacher
In an effort to improve the quality of discussions that crop up on Hacker News, Y Combinator founding partner Paul Graham yesterday announced some imminent changes to the way comments would be posted
After a long tenure at the helm of Y Combinator — during which a summer “bootcamp” for undergrads turned into a Silicon Valley institution, pioneering the “seed acceleratorR
<a target="_blank" href="http://crunchbase.com/company/y-combinator">Y Combinator</a>, one of the most successful and impressive accelerators in the world, has today announced the Female Founders Conf
It's time to play the Y Combinator valuation game again. YC founder Paul Graham <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/paulg/status/422815186437685248">tweeted out the latest stats</a> on the ea
Over the last several years, Y Combinator has established itself as a powerhouse by picking and helping out a number of winning startups that have gone on to have great success. That includes names li
At the 500 Startups PreMoney Conference last week, Y Combinator's Paul Graham gave a presentation in which he suggested a new way for Series A investments to get done. Graham provided a few suggestion
<em>Credit where it's definitely due: this post was inspired by a Twitter conversation with Box CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Levie">Aaron Levie</a>.</em>
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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is a father figure to countless startups he’s helped accelerate, but had never taken a board of directors seat until now. Today he announced he’s accepted
Long before the era of iPads and Snapchats and holographic Tupacs, some of the greatest minds in tech and science spent their life trying to understand weather patterns. Since, we’ve evolved to
Before the pitches kicked off at today's <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ycombinator.com">Y Combinator</a> Demo Day, partner Paul Graham said the incubator was stricter than ever when selecting th
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.ycombinator.com">Y Combinator</a> founder Paul Graham just <a target="_blank" href="http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html">published a blog post</a> suggesting a new way
<a target="_blank" href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a> founder Paul Graham <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/paulg/status/300005637658664960">tweeted today</a> that the accelera
I wrote this post with my voice. I made no changes, save for a few typo corrections, and used no keyboard. That's probably why it's so bad.
It's an experiment of mine. The hypothesis is whether or
<a target="_blank" href="http://ycombinator.com/index.html">Y Combinator </a>co-founder Paul Graham <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/paulg/status/228181857311784960">tweeted</a> today that
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