Attack of the Clones: Facebook’s Annoying Overseas Growth Problem

Mark Zuckerberg speaks about the international thorn in Facebook’s side, at an industry event.

Medical Crowdfunding Site Watsi Becomes Y Combinator’s First Nonprofit Startup

“I’ve never been so excited about anything we’ve funded,” says YC chief Paul Graham.

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Tracking Global Growth in Seed Accelerators

A new kind of institution that promotes and celebrates a culture of entrepreneurship.

Q&A: Randall Stross on the World of Y Combinator

Y Combinator leader Paul Graham calls Stross’s book “remarkably accurate.”

Y Combinator’s Paul Graham Warns Start-Ups to Lower Funding Expectations

Y Combinator leader Paul Graham is now warning his companies to conserve their funding.

The Three Ventureers: Andreessen Horowitz Joining Conway and Milner in Y Combinator Start Fund

The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up. What cash crunch?

Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

The start-up incubator Y Combinator today is pushing out 63 new companies, its largest and most daunting class ever.

Start-Up Accelerators Get Topic-Specific: Education, Health and Now Cleantech

Start-up accelerators in the mold of Y Combinator are themselves a growth industry and now some are centered on specific topics rather than just common location.

Meet Y Combinator's Latest Class

Y Combinator on Tuesday showed off its latest class of start-ups at its Mountain View, CA, headquarters, offering an extra-large sampler pack of developer tools; social apps; lots of services for markets like real estate, doctors and parents; and, of course, a few of its trademark productivity apps. Here’s the list, along with a photo gallery.

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Y Combinator’s Paul Graham on the $150K Per Start-Up Offer

When Russian investor Yuri Milner approached Y Combinator’s Paul Graham about a week ago, Graham said he thought it was just “one of those random meetings” between two investors talking shop.