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Y Combinator's Harj Taggar On Bad Pitches, Learning To Code, And The Power Of Hacker News [TCTV]

Colleen Taylor wrote 2 days ago: [tc_5min code="517376019"] Paul Graham may be the most public face of Silicon Valley startup incubat … more →

Tags: TC, Video, Harjeet Taggar, Harj Taggar

Weirded out about photo-sharing and privacy? Try Kicksend for Android

Jolie O'Dell wrote 4 days ago: Yesterday, we brought you news of a boneheaded teenager whose house was robbed due to indiscreet pho … more →

Tags: Mobile, android, Featured

A cure for your incubator fatigue: Meet nReduce, the open-source Y Combinator

Jolie O'Dell wrote 4 days ago: Incubators are like belly buttons: Everybody’s got one. Or so it seems from where we sit in Sa … more →

Tags: dev, entrepreneur, Accelerator, Developers, Editor's Pick, Featured, hackers, incubator, Open-Source

Diaspora: a Social Network Where Users Own Their Data1 comment

Marie Wiere wrote 1 week ago: In recent years many people have expressed concern regarding Facebook’s ever-changing privacy policy … more →

Tags: Innovative Ideas, social media marketing, Diaspora, Social Media Data Ownership

Start-Up Accelerators: Not Always What They’re Cracked Up to Be

D.Flowers wrote 1 week ago: By DeShondela Flowers I read in today’s WSJ about the proliferation of start-up “boot camps” and acc … more →

Tags: Business planning, Financing, music entrepreneurship, Doubt in Value of Start Up Accelerators, Start-up accelerators, Start-Up Accelerators Fail

Start-Up Accelerators: Not Always What They’re Cracked Up to Be

D.Flowers wrote 1 week ago: By DeShondela Flowers I read in today’s WSJ about the proliferation of start-up “boot camps” and acc … more →

Tags: Business, Start-up accelerators, Doubt in Value of Start Up Accelerators, Start-Up Accelerators Fail

Fred Wilson: We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit, Hacker News anarchists

Sean Ludwig wrote 1 week ago: Fred Wilson, managing partner at Union Square Ventures, shed some light today on why his VC firm inv … more →

Tags: venturebeat, Hacker news, Privacy, Search Engines, TechCrunch Disrupt 2012

Thoughts on grave dancing...and how your town becomes the next Silicon Valley (Hint: You don't want to)

Chris Bernard wrote 1 week ago: This article is getting a lot of play and I’m sure they’ll be some pretty vigorous debat … more →

Tags: Accelerators, Incubators, Innovation, Investors, Microsoft Research, startups, Stories, 500 startups, Austin Technology Incubator

Everyme, the truly private social network, arrives on Android and the web

Jennifer Van Grove wrote 2 weeks ago: Sitting at the intersection of group messaging and social networking is Everyme, a startup so zeroed … more →

Tags: Mobile, Social, Mobile Apps, private social network

TechNexus Cracks Forbes Top 10 Incubators List by Focusing on Collaboration

Nathaniel Mott wrote 2 weeks ago: TechNexus became one of the country’s leading incubators almost by accident. Forbes listed the Chica … more →

Tags: Tech, Accelerator, Chicago, Forbes, Howerton, incubator, n combinator, piccsy, technexus

CollegeBudget Acquires Y Combinator-Backed Munch On Me To Bring Food Deals To Campuses

Rip Empson wrote 2 weeks ago: Last we heard from CollegeBudget, its founder and CEO Mike Moradian was in the process of crowdsourc … more →

Tags: Fundings & Exits, startups, TC, CollegeBudget, collegebudget.com, munchonme, acquisition

Share batches of photos discretely and free of charge with the all-new Kicksend

Jolie O'Dell wrote 2 weeks ago: “Oversharing can happen way too easily,” said my friend, a new parent. “I’m … more →

Tags: venturebeat, oversharing, Photo Sharing, photos, Featured

Elicit Raises a $1.5 Million Series A to Fix Site Search

Nathaniel Mott wrote 2 weeks ago: Chicago-based Elicit has raised a $1.5 million Series A funding round. Greycroft Partners, First Rou … more →

Tags: Products, Tech, Curation, Elicit, Optimization, Search, Site Search, Swiftype

Refer.ly Launches Influencer Affiliate Platform Ahead of YC Session

Erin Griffith wrote 2 weeks ago: Share links and earn rewards! It sounds like a shady Internet get-rich-quick scheme. Or a way to spa … more →

Tags: Tech, Products, twilio, Refer.ly, Danielle Morrill

Inside AnyVivo, The YC Startup That Wants To Be The Amazon.com For Pets And Plants

Colleen Taylor wrote 3 weeks ago: [tc_5min code="517357328"] AnyVivo, a startup that launched this spring out of Y Combinator’s … more →

Tags: TC, Video, AnyVivo, e-commerce

Pair, the Buzzy App for Couples, Gets a Third Wheel: A Lawsuit

mmccarthyobserver wrote 3 weeks ago: Can Pair thumbkiss its way out of a lawsuit? Looks like thunderstorms could ruin the honeymoon for P … more →

Tags: lawsuits, pair, pair networks

42Floors’ new “Showroom” turns startup offices into seductive hiring tools

Michael Sinan wrote 4 weeks ago: 42Floors emerged from Y Combinator’s Winter 2012 class back in March as an office space search and d … more →

Tags: venturebeat, Hiring, online real estate, Real Estate, Office Space, 42Floors, startup for startups

WePay Raises $10 Million To Scale Its Online Payment Platform

Frederic Lardinois wrote 4 weeks ago: Online payment platform WePay just announced that it has raised $10 million in a new financing round … more →

Tags: TC, Fundings & Exits, venture capital, August Capital, Highland Capital Partners, ignition partners, Payments, WePay

Hyperink Announces New Investors, Launches Blogs-to-Book Service

Trevor Gilbert wrote 1 month ago: A new service from Y Combinator-backed book publisher Hyperink aims to take blog posts, stir in a co … more →

Tags: Tech, Byliner, Hyperink


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