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Carleen Hawn, Editor, FoundRead has more than 14 years of journalism experience. Prior to editing Found|READ, she was a Senior Writer and the West Coast Bureau Chief for Fast Company magazine, and an Associate Editor in Forbes’ Silicon Valley Bureau, where she created Forbes’ long-running and influential Midas List, an index of tech business dealmakers. Carleen has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia Journalism School, and was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Business School. Her contributions have been published in Financial Week, Business 2.0, San Francisco and Outside magazines.

Xobni: Our Path from ‘Wrong Product’ to Killer App

Gabor Cselle, Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 6:00 AM PT Comments (13)

Editor’s Note: This post is the second in a three-part series authored by Xobni’s VP of engineering, Gabor Cselle. Read a longer version (co-written with Marie C. Baca ) on Cselle’s blog starting Monday.
I run product development at Xobni, maker of an email application that helps you organize your Outlook inbox. My co-founders [...]

Read ‘Em and Reap: Decoding the VC Poker Face

Richard Moran, Friday, May 9, 2008 at 4:30 PM PT Comments (9)

There are a lot of different words that can be used to describe the venture capital community and its relationship with entrepreneurs. Many of them, however, cannot be printed. For example, I once heard a VC say to an entrepreneur: “It would be easier to build a nuclear reactor at [UC] Berkeley than to [...]

The F|R Interview: Y Combinator’s Paul Graham

Carleen Hawn, Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 2:00 AM PT Comments (8)

Editor’s note: For the sake of accuracy, we have replaced the edited questions and answers with their unedited version (save for some minor stylistic changes). We sincerely apologize for any confusion.
This week Found|READ interviews software entrepreneur Paul Graham, co-founder of the influential startup incubator, Y Combinator.
Since 2005, Y Combinator has seed-funded 250 founders and [...]

HubPages: 7 Things We Did to Beat Squidoo (Case of “less is more”)

Jason Menayan, Friday, April 25, 2008 at 12:02 AM PT Comments (7)

HubPages is an online publishing ecosystem where authors submit useful, informative articles on topics they know and love, and then earn royalties for their contributions through Google AdSense, eBay Partner Network or Amazon Associates.

Our site grew quickly after we launched in August 2006, as word spread that writers could (could for once) earn […]

Question of the Day: What R Your Pre-Launch Priorities?

Carleen Hawn, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 8:25 AM PT Comments (7)

I spent yesterday afternoon in an hours-long strategy session with some former Y Combinator grads. The team is in the final week of preparing their startup for its Beta launch, and they were having difficulty yesterday deciding what the ultimate hierarchy of the pre-launch tasks should be. I’m sure all founders struggle with this, […]

Web 2.0 Celebrity Missteps: How not to work the room

Larry Chiang, Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 12:02 AM PT Comments (2)

This is the age of Celebrity 2.0. If you have more that 200 Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Yelp friends, you’re a celeb, too! After watching too many big shots ‘step in it’ again and again this week (first at Y Combinator’s Startup School, and I’m sure Web2.0 Expo is do different), I decided to […]

Yoskovitz: Be a Data Hog, Make More Money!

Carleen Hawn, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 12:05 AM PT Comments (0)

Editor’s Note: our readers are familiar now with contributor Ben Yoskovitz’s work. (His company, Standout Jobs was just named one of Canada’s hottest startups. Congratulations, Ben!) This week, on his Instigator Blog, Ben offers a great treatise on how founders can leverage data collecting to make more money for their startups.

The pervading approach to launching […]

9 People You Meet at Y Combinator (and what you can learn from them).

Larry Chiang, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 12:30 AM PT Comments (0)

I went to Y Combinator’s Startup School on Saturday (that’s YC-founder Paul Graham, in case you don’t know) even though most people in Silicon Valley see the material there as “too basic.” My goal is to perpetually learn and apply and to learn as much from the audience as from the killer line-up of […]

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