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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
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How to Make the Most of Your Time at an Incubator
Incubators like Y Combinator and DreamIt Ventures are helping young companies get their start. Here's how to make the most of your time at an incubator.
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How This 19-Year-Old Is Taking On Google
He's an Israeli who sidestepped military service in favor of moving to the Bay Area to become Y Combinator's youngest founder. Six months later, all eyes are on Daniel Gross, as he has almost $5 million in funding backing his search engine, Greplin. Oh, and he didn’t go to college.
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Meet 30 Cool Young Entrepreneurs
A look at Inc.com's annual list of the top young entrepreneurs under the age of 30.
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19 Blogs You Should Bookmark Right Now -- Paul Graham
There are millions of blogs out there. And most of them aren't worth your time. So we scoured the Web and came up with a list of the smartest bloggers, who just might help you run a better business
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Should You Boycott The Tech Industry's Biggest Bully?
Jason Calacanis thinks Comscore needs to be stopped. The Mahalo founder calls analytics company Comscore Read more
10 Questions for Paul Graham
1. What's your favorite part of a typical day? Walking to University Avenue in Palo Alto for breakfast and mulling over ideas. ... Read more
A New Electric Ride and Raising Money Now
Tesla unveils new car. Elon Musk's electric car startup will show off it's latest model--a $50,000 sedan that the company hopes will take electric ... Read more
Michelle You, Ian Hogarth, and Pete Smith, Founders of Songkick
By meticulously compiling upcoming concert listings, the founders of Songkick have amassed an audience of one million fans—and the backing of Y Combinator,... Watch video
VCs are Thinking Small
VC's are learning that tiny deals can go a long way. 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
Paul Graham: The Truth About Startups
I was lucky to attend Y Combinator's annual Startup School this weekend. The event began Friday night with a party... Read more
How Incubators Speed the Start-up Process
Initiatives such as Y Combinator in San Francisco and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado, provide more than just funding. Read more
Twitter Gets GM's Attention; Second Life Lives Again
GM bows to the power of Twitter. Hard to believe that the once powerful auto giant would ever listen to feedback from a bunch of microbloggers, but... Read more
The Ultimate Business Tune-up for Times Like These
In a tough economy with credit extremely tight, big investments are not an option for most companies. Yet no business can afford to stand still. We asked our... Read more
Will Steve Jobs Take the Stage?
Apple to unveil a new iPhone . At least, we think that's what's going to happen today, as Apple throws its annual party for software developers in S... Read more
A New Incubator on the Block
It's billed as the Y Combinator for education. Also, venture capital moves toward the cloud, and the rest of the day's news. Read more
How Apple Got Its Name
Obamacare is the law . It's official: After decades of debate, a universal health care reform package was Read more
The Jobs Bill and You
Senate passes hiring incentives . A measure designed to provide financial incentives for companies to hire new employees looks set to pass the Senat... Read more
Twitter Creator Takes on PayPal
Twitter founder's next big thing . Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, says he "hate[s] getting change." So yesterday, he announc... Read more
Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Saying All the Right Things
The idea for Lingt Language came to MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst while they were sitting in Chinese class. The students, who were preparing... Read more
How to Find a Bay Area Start-up Location
Do you want to play with the big guns on the peninsula, go with the flow in SoMa, or carve out a different niche in the East Bay? Read more
Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin
Admit it, you've Googled yourself to see what pops up. When I Google myself, what comes up on the first page is my company's website, Inc.com, Wikip... Read more
Don't Worry, Start a Company
Y Combinator's Paul Graham makes the case that now is a perfectly fine time to start a company—maybe not a restaurant, he says, but certainly anythi... Read more
How to Choose an Investor
Sachin Agarwal, CEO of Posterous, ponders the softer side of the investment equation and proposes the Read more
Justin Kan, Founder of Justin.tv
Justin Kan, the founder of live streaming video service Justin.tv, discusses his company's culture, Y Combinator funding, and how to develop new technology. Watch video
New SBA Head, Bailouts and the Best Biz Blogs
Obama names SBA administrator. It's Karen Gordon Mills, a private equity executive from Maine. Inc.'s Robb Mandelbaum is worried: "[I]t's... Read more
How Hard Could It Be?: Start-up Static
A new business is like a shortwave radio. You have to fiddle patiently with all the dials until you get the reception you want Read more
Can Brad Pitt Save an Independent Studio?
A reprieve for the Weinsteins? Most movie studio heads would have been popping bubbly over the opening of Inglorious Basterds this weekend. (The Qu... Read more
Blogger Logic: Avoiding "The Long No"
Bootstrapping is harder than most entrepreneurs realize, which means outside investment is a necessary evil, writes Paul Graham of Y Combinator, a firm th... Read more
LinkedIn Goes Public
The LinkedIn IPO, Mark Pincus and Zynga, elevator pitch obsolescence, and more entrepreneur news. Read more
Contributors
Liz Welch has gotten glimpses into myriad entrepreneurial lives by shadowing CEOs for The Way I Work. For this issue, she learned what's inside Aut... Read more
Broken Web Ads, Medical Records, and How Investors Think
Is web advertising broken? Wharton professor Eric Clemons has Read more
How to Innovate and an E-Book Upstart Scores
If you're going to make a mess, make it a big one. That's the lesson Seattle entrepreneur and angel investor Read more
Teens In Tech: They're Here; Get Used to It
You have nothing to fear from the youth of America. Google held it's annual Teens In Tech conference yesterday in San Francisco and more than 150 p... Read more
A Note on Design
Today is a big day at Inc.com, as we unveil the next phase of a site-wide redesign that began in December. Our regular visitors will notice that the templ... Read more
Tom Friedman Gets Why Youth Entrepreneurship Matters
If you missed Tom Friedman's OpEd piece in The New York Times yesterday on why the Obama administration needs to focus on youth entrepreneurship, please r... Read more
Fake Steve Jobs Gets a Sitcom Deal
Tips from Inc.'s GrowCo Conference. Following up a day that included presentations by Read more
Say Hello to America's Fastest-Growing Companies
The secrets of the Inc. 500. Some of them piggy-backed on the Opra... Read more
An Argument Against the Start-up Visa
Are babies naming start-ups? One writer over at Gi... Read more
What's a Real Company?
At Y Combinator's AngelConf yesterday, Michael Arrington bemoaned the proliferation of, as he called t... Read more
The Rise of High-Resolution Fundraising?
Venture capital firm Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham sent the VC blogosphere into a tizzy this week when he tweeted: 'Con... Read more
Entrepreneurs in the News
If you have everything it takes to be a highflier except, well, a good idea, say thank you to Paul Graham. His Y Combinator, the venture ... Read more
How the TED Fellows Program Develops Leaders
A look at the mission behind the TED Fellows program, and how it helps young innovators develop a network of contacts and leadership skills. Read more
An Accelerator Grows Up
Two years ago, when I first wrote about accel... Read more
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