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Y Combinator's Startup Math

Y Combinator’s Startup Math

By Chris Yeh on July 10, 2013

Paul Graham has a great essay out in which he explains his view of both Y Combinator and the startup ecosystem.  As usual, it’s a thoughtful essay with a lot of great points.  But what I’d like to focus on are the numbers he provided on YC’s portfolio: “Y Combinator has now funded 564 startups […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged startups, VC, vceconomics, ycombinator

The Real Odds That Your Startup "Succeeds"

The Real Odds That Your Startup "Succeeds"

By Chris Yeh on June 17, 2013

Henry Blodget is a smart journalist who knows how to drive pageviews.  He certainly got me to click through when he picked the headline, “DEAR ENTREPRENEURS: Here’s How Bad Your Odds Of Success Are” Blodget riffs on a tweet by Paul Graham to estimate the odds of startup success: “Graham says that 37 of the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged success, vceconomics, ycombinator

Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

Some Tips to Improve the Civility on Hacker News

By Mark Suster on June 3, 2010

Paul Graham and the folks over at YCombinator have done much to reenergize early-stage entrepreneurship and encourage the creation of many new and innovative startups including DropBox, Posterous, Loopt, Justin.TV, Scribd and many others.  They also gave us Hacker News, which for me was a welcome addition for discovering tech stories.  HN and Techmeme are […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged civility, debate, hacker news, news aggregators, Tech Market Analysis, ycombinator

Digital Health Becoming a Reality

Digital Health Becoming a Reality

By Mark Suster on January 18, 2010

Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe.  That’s always stuck with me. I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets.  But when I […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Product reviews | Tagged BMI, dailyburn, FitBit, gadgets, health, iphone, SoCal Stuff, Tech Market Analysis, TechStars, WakeMate, withings, ycombinator | 1 Response

At Age 35 Mozart Was Dead

At Age 35 Mozart Was Dead

By Guest Authors on August 24, 2009

The title of this blog is a quote from Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital during a Fireside Chat with Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technologies, Paul Graham of YCombinator and Mike at the Revenue Bootcamp held last July.  If your an entrepreneur and haven’t watched the video for this, I encourage you to watch it, as […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged ageism, bootcamp, building43, Entrepreneurship, guy kawasaki, michaud, mike moritz, mozart, Paul Graham, sequoia, startups, vc funding, venture capital, web startups, ycombinator | 6 Responses

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