Meta Wants to Become the Next Augmented-Reality Glasses Phenom

Meta wearers can interact with virtual games, architectural renderings and other 3-D objects by using their hands.
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Edtech Startups at Imagine K12 Now Get $100,000 Each

Imagine K12, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup accelerator that focuses on education technology, is adopting a precedent from Y Combinator (with which it shares some partners, advisers and backers) to give participating startups $80,000 in convertible debt (in addition to about $20,000 in investment) so they can better build and test their ideas. The program offers rolling admissions.

StoryWorth Aims to Elicit and Record Family Stories

StoryWorth would create archives of personal stories told between generations.
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Startups Aim to Bring Slices of the Offline World Online

None of these are going to save the world, but perhaps they’ll save a headache or two.
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Get Free Airport Valet Parking — If You’re Willing to Rent Your Car With FlightCar

FlightCar launches today an airport-based car-sharing service at SFO.
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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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The Muse Career Site Raises $1.2M

The Muse, a site that tries to help people figure out what they want to do with their lives, has raised seed funding.
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GoBank: It’s a Real Bank, and It’s Made by Real Internet People

Lots of startup types go about their lives in search of something they can fix. “Banking!” they think. “Banking sucks!”
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The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, Not Engineering, Says CEO Ben Silbermann

The way Pinterest grew had little to do with Silicon Valley wisdom.
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Q&A: Randall Stross on the World of Y Combinator

Y Combinator leader Paul Graham calls Stross’s book “remarkably accurate.”
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Y Combinator’s Paul Graham Warns Start-Ups to Lower Funding Expectations

Twilio’s Danielle Morrill Leaves to Found Affiliate Start-Up Referly

People-Search Engine Ark Raises Biggest Y Combinator Seed Round in Memory

Pair App for Couples Strikes a Chord in First Four Days

Y Combinator’s Demo Day Gets Supersized

Exec Is “An Uber for TaskRabbit”

Former Googlers’ AngelPad Graduates 15 More Start-Ups

New Web Start-Ups Want to Help Your Offline Social Life

Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups

AngelPad Gets VC Firms to Commit $100K to All Its Start-Ups

GrowLab Accelerator Takes Root in Vancouver