17 posts and columns on Paul graham

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

in News on October 14, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

The high-profile venture firm is in for $50,000 per start-up. What cash crunch?
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Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

in News on August 23, 2011 at 12:58 pm PT

The start-up incubator Y Combinator today is pushing out 63 new companies, its largest and most daunting class ever.
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Start-Up Accelerators Get Topic-Specific: Education, Health and Now Cleantech

in Social on May 24, 2011 at 8:38 am PT

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

in Social on March 22, 2011 at 3:25 pm PT

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.

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

in News on February 1, 2011 at 4:04 pm PT

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.

The Most-Read Blogs By Venture Capitalists

in News on January 20, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

Fred Wilson is no longer the venture-capital blogging king. The Union Square Ventures partner, whose firm is an investor in many high-profile web companies including Twitter Inc., is known more to some in the start-up community for the valuable insight he shares on his blog than for the deals he actually makes.

Gmail Creator Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

in Social on November 12, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

Paul Buchheit, the well-respected developer and angel investor, is moving on from Facebook, which had acquired him along with FriendFeed, the start-up he co-founded and funded.

QOTD: An iPod With a Cell Phone and Browser…Now There’s an Idea…

“If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a Web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.”

– “Hackers and Painters” author Paul Graham answers the question “If the the Mac was so great why did it lose?”–back in 2004

Weekend Update 3.27.10–The Countdown Begins Edition

in News on March 27, 2010 at 7:25 pm PT

In case you are not yet worked up into enough of a lather, let Weekend Update help out. iPad apps are hitting the App Store, Jobs and Schmidt are brunching together and Apple has run out of iPads for day one. Developers are leaking screenshots of their latest “HD” apps, and the whole of Silicon Valley is about to explode in a sonorous collective oh yeahhh, as if everyone within a 100-mile radius were dipping into a hot tub simultaneously.

Paul Graham’s Y Combinator Start-Ups Strut Their Stuff and Investors Eat It Up

in Media on March 25, 2010 at 3:30 am PT

Meet the man who runs Silicon Valley’s most exclusive school: A three-month start-up crash course. You don’t get a diploma, but there’s a good chance you’ll end up with something more valuable.