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Amazon is increasing the speed with which it is rolling out its Lockers across the country by partnering with retailers such as Staples and RadioShack. That attention is helping lift the fortunes of startups that want to take on Amazon — BufferBox being one of them. Read more »

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Startup Vidyard has raised $1.65 million in an effort to grow its platform for enterprise video distribution. The company hopes to take on existing companies like Brightcove and Ooyala as a way to manage, measure and monetize videos that businesses put on the Internet. Read more »

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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham

Paul Graham started Y Combinator, his unique blend of start-up school and incubator in 2005 and since then has spawned quite a quite a few well known names such as Dropbox, Justin.tv and Airbnb. Here is a video that looks at YC and its impact. Read more »

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Austin’s answer to TechStars or YCombinator shows off its graduating class of startups today (plus 15 other companies) as the third year of the Capital Factory accelerator program comes to a close. I went out last week to interview the startups to get readers the scoop. Read more »

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Friends were skeptical when E la Carte founder Rajat Suri dropped out of MIT to become a waiter — for research. Two years, later, his startup seeks to tame the “chaotic environment” of a restaurant with features designed to streamline tasks for customers and staff. Read more »

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NewsTilt, a media startup that launched in April, shut down just two months later. Co-founder Paul Biggar has written an analysis of why it collapsed so quickly, and his post contains some useful lessons — not just for media-related startups, but for startups of all kinds. Read more »

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Lars Hinrichs, who founded the European social network Xing, has launched a new startup fund/incubator called HackFwd, which calls itself a “pre-seed investment company.” But some say the fund’s asking price is too high: 27 percent of a startup’s equity in return for an initial investment. Read more »

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From a comparison of auto and PC industries to problems associated with the location-based advertising to tips & tricks of reading startup term sheets — here is a selection of five articles to read. And after you are done, check out Hitchhiker’s guide to financial regulation. Read more »

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Picture a tech startup founder. Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, and a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently that’s what it takes to build a tech startup according to the explicit and implicit wisdom shared at the Seed Combinator’s panel today at SXSW. Read more »

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Updated: TechStars, a seed-stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Colo., as well as Boston and Seattle, recently decided to grade itself. So far, the group is not doing too badly. Out of the 39 companies to come out of TechStars, 29 are still active, five […] Read more »

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The gift card business has nearly quintupled from $20 billion in 1999 to $100 billion in 2010. Along with the growth has come a unique problem: nearly $5 billion worth of cards go unclaimed every year. Cardpool, a San Francisco-based startup, wants to solve that problem. Read more »

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Last week, when down in Los Angeles, I had a chance to interview Paul Graham, co-founder of YCombinator on-stage at the Twiistup conference. The wide ranging conversation spanned a good 45 minutes and generically talked about the Internet start-ups and entrepreneurship. Here are some highlights. Read more »

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The race is heating up among companies looking to bring you tools that sit atop your electricity meter to help you cut energy consumption in your home. Many of them are working with utilities on services for smart meter rollouts; some are building high-end dashboards that […] Read more »

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Game industry analyst DFC Intelligence will publish a comprehensive study of massively multiplayer online worlds next month, and was nice enough to give us an advance peek at their list of MMOs and MMORPGs that earned the most revenue in 2008. The numbers are primarily estimates […] Read more »

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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 […] Read more »

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I’m a repeat founder and YCombinator groupie. I’m the wrong age group to apply to YCombinator, but I’ve still learned a lot from the incubator from afar — like, the virtues of micro-loans and “entre-sumers.” This is my story. More than a decade ago, for my […] Read more »

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I don’t think of myself as a serial entrepreneur since the terminology is most commonly used to describe someone who has had multiple successes (which I haven’t). But I also cannot pretend to be a first-timer — without having to explain the tread marks on my […] Read more »

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Editor’s Note: Serial founder Tony Wright recently completed a 3-month stint at the incubator YCombinator, where, in November 2007, he and two partners launched RescueTime, which hawks free software to help individuals and businesses spend their computing time more effectively. After successfully launching their consumer offering […] Read more »