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YCombinator

By Adam Rifkin

One of the most influential changes to Venture Capital in the last ten years.

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How to Get Into Y Combinator: Look Like Mark Zuckerberg - Businessweek

Rap Genius co-founders give a lesson in "swag" (and cringe) at TC Disrupt : cringe

From Selling Scoops Of Ice Cream To Founding ZeroCater | TechCrunch

Indexing the a16z Portfolio Companies, by Danielle Morrill

An idea for non-technical co-founders: try a service-first business

"We'll Be Circling Back" VC Boilerplate

YCombinator companies don't die. They become Zombie Startups.

Top Startup Incubators And Accelerators: Y Combinator Tops With $7.8 Billion In Value - Forbes

New YC seed record: Virool Raises $6.62 Million “Seed” Round To Help Make Videos Go Viral

Paul Graham to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky: "Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like."

Paul Graham Making It Rain gif

"I don’t pretend that I had any idea that I knew what I was doing." ~ Mark Zuckerberg

ZenPayroll raises YC’s largest seed round ever: $6.1 million.

The YC VC Program: 1/4 YC Founders from S12 had a founder breakup

Ben Parr, Tracks.by Cofounders Aim To 'Dominate' Venture Capital With Celebrity Ties...by investing in YC companies

How to Get Startup Ideas: Or, Why Paul Graham and Y Combinator are better than Dave McClure/500 Startups

42Floors continues the YCombinator tradition of piling 35 people into an investment round.

Hurricane Sandy Disrupts YCombinator ...

"YC founders get to raise money under the best of circumstances and even for them it's a bitch." ~Jessica Livingston

Startup School And Survivor Bias

What Would Paul Graham Do? — A Search Engine That Teaches You The Ways Of Y Combinator’s Boss | TechCrunch

Startup Offers Failed Entrepreneurs A Million Dollar Signing Bonus - SFGate

Nothing works better than just improving your product. ~@spolsky

TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day | TechCrunch

The Dorm Room Fund - First Round Capital

"If you haven't succeeded yet, you're not entrepreneuring hard enough. Keep trying." ~paraphrasing Paul Graham

Always Be Closing: Y Combinator and The Art of the Pitch

Is it a bad idea for a start-up to take venture capital money?

How to get $20M pre-money:

Exclusive: Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator | Vanity Fair

The problem with accelerators is that they cannot care too much about any single startup. They play the portfolio game.

Black Swan Farming

"There is no valid way to rip off people’s designs and have it be ok." ~ @dhh

Y Combinator's Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users - Bloomberg

A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch - Statwing Blog

The Rise of the New York Startup Scene - Technology Review

Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

XXCombinator 404 page

Paul Graham: Y Combinator Companies Have Raised More Than $1 Billion | TechCrunch

Innovation thoughts: Rayhan Rafiq Omar | 10 ways startups get screwed

It’s a long life in the small Valley by Michael Waxman

Pivot Patrol: YC Alum SwipeGood Is Now Elastic, A Sales-As-A-Service Platform For Tech Startups | TechCrunch

Startup Accelerator Fail: Most Graduates Go Nowhere

YCombinator grows to 3 women partners...

• In defense of hype

I'm tired of the opportunists and their hackathons.

YCombinator startups are worth $7.8 billion.

The Seven Forces Disrupting Venture Capital | TechCrunch

How do founders know how much seed to raise?

"The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that’s the only way the idea will come into the world." ~Dustin Moskovitz

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