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Recent Articles about Sequoia Capital

Watch Those VCs Smile

The top 10 venture capital firms of 1993.  Read more

How to Raise $1.2 Million in Venture Capital

Drew Houston literally didn’t know what to do with his first million dollars.  Read more

CEOs Gossip About the VCs

The 1,500 entrepreneurs who rank VCs at The Funded have expressed some very strong opinions. Inc. does not endorse these views but is happy to quote...  Read more

From Flip Cameras to Grilled Cheese

No, my source for this story is not "The Onion." Jonathan Kaplan, of Flip Camera fame, has a new start-up in the works; a grilled cheese restaurant chain ...  Read more

Entrepreneurs We Love…Because They Entertain Us

Here’s to the men and women who make us laugh, keep us connected, stoke our creativity, and get us dancing.  View slideshow

Unmasking Mark Zuckerberg

The Early Word on the Facebook Book? "Solid Gold." On TechCrunch , Michae...  Read more

Private Equity Fundraising Stays Strong in Q3

October 19, 2005 --Private equity firms reported a healthy influx of new investment in the third quarter, according to a quarterly report ...  Read more

A Startup To Help Startups and the Stork Visits Twitter

The dark side of micro-lending . The Wall Street Journal has a long, fascinating story on a new credit bubble in India. On the surface it sounds fam...  Read more

LinkedIn Soars

This is a what investors call a pop . Lin...  Read more

Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, Founders of AirBnB

San Francisco start-up AirBnB is like a Craigslist for the couch-surfing set.  Watch video

Inside the Zappos Sale

More on the big Zappos sale. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh announced yesterday afternoon that his company was getting Read more

Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 - John Bicket and Sanjit Biswas, Meraki

#22 John Bicket #23 Sanjit Biswas Meraki Age: 28 (Bicket) and 26 (Bi...  Read more

Entrepreneurs: Risk-Takers or Predators?

Why founders matter . They make the kinds of decisions that professional managers--whose main concern is shareholder value--never could make, says F...  Read more

Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Founders of Dropbox

At a Boston bus station in early 2007, Drew Houston opened his laptop to finish some work while waiting for his bus. As he turned on his computer, ...  Read more

Any Given Start-Up

In years past, only a Super Bowl ring could light up the eyes of a burly football player. Now he's just as likely to perk up over a new dot-com. Pro athletes...  Read more

Peaks And Valleys

Venture capitalist Don Valentine scaled the entrepreneurial heights as a key investor in Apple Computer, Altos Computer Systems, and Tandem. Now, amidst unce...  Read more

Zappos: Our VCs Didn't Screw Us

Did the VCs Steamroll Zappos? In a word, no. $900 million dollar...  Read more

The Connector

Social networking has changed the way people communicate online. Sam Altman decided to take that concept and get people out into the real world.  Read more

Why I Sold Zappos

Tony Hsieh built his online shoe retailer into an e-commerce powerhouse. But with credit tightening and investors eyeing the exits, Hsieh was forced to ask: ...  Read more

Venture Capital After The Fall

How the dealmakers see it  Read more

The Classroom vs. the Real World

For years, business schools have been criticized for focusing too much on analysis and not enough on practical experience. But as more and more students turn...  Read more

The Zappos Way of Managing

How Tony Hsieh uses relentless innovation, stellar customer service, and a staff of believers to make Zappos.com an e-commerce juggernaut -- and one of the m...  Read more

VCs are Thinking Small

VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way.  Read more

Meet Bill Gates's Favorite Teacher

Each day, Inc .'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ...  Read more

Boing! Whiz! Bang! Dunk!

Dancing chefs and blue martinis -- iLounge sounds like a rowdy day of fun and games. But despite its hilarity, iLounge offers some hard-core business lessons...  Read more

Can Paul Graham Mass-Produce the Start-up?

Can Paul Graham successfully mass-produce the start-up? That's the plan. The founder of Y Combinator is forging a new mold for investing in early-stage techn...  View slideshow

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel.

Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read more

Fiscal Therapy

At a two-day "boot camp" for high-tech start-ups, CEOs thought they'd be learning how to attract Silicon Valley investors. What they got was even more import...  Read more

The Return of the IPO

Investors are betting on high-growth start-ups.  Read more

All Eyes on Apple Today

Did Calacanis spill the beans on the Apple tablet? On Tuesday evening, serial entrepreneur Read more

Innovating Comedy

Funny or Die is more than a website for laughs. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Chris Henchy are changing Hollywood.  Read more

Cool, Determined & Under 30

They are collaborative, creative, and -- above all -- confident. And all of them were born after October 31, 1978.  Read more

A Notorious Icon of the First Dotcom Bubble Returns

Phil Kaplan parodied the early dotcoms; now he's got his own, and it's one of the fastest growing private companies in America.  Read more

Who’s Behind TheFunded.com?

A mysterious new website lets entrepreneurs talk trash about their VCs.  Read more

Dear John

What happens when the venture capitalists find profit in your company -- but don't see profit in you?  Read more

Upstarts: Rookie Venture Capital

A look at how three businessmen with no venture capital experience started Redleaf Venture Management. Plus, several shorter articles about why so many green...  Read more

What Business Would You Start?

Nearly 50 business luminaries, ranging from H. Ross Perot to Ed McMahon, are asked what businesses to start.  Read more

Find the Fox

Someone on your target's team wants to help you.  Read more

Entrepreneur of the Year, 2007: Elon Musk

Electric sports cars. Solar power. Space travel. Finally, an entrepreneur who's not afraid to think really, really big.  Read more

The Start-up Guru

Paul Graham's business school and investment fund, Y Combinator, has launched 145 companies -- for a lot less money than you would think  Read more