We have co-opted seed funds. You know, Y Combinator, that was completely our money. We have secret handshakes with a whole bunch of…
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So that’s why BufferBox is so hot
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 MoreVidyard raises $1.65M to get enterprise videos online
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 MorePaul Graham’s Y Combinator, six years later
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 MoreMeet Capital Factory’s 5 graduating startups
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 MoreTable for Two and a Tablet, Please
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 MoreAnatomy of a Failure: Lessons From the Death of NewsTilt
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 MoreXing Founder Tries Euro Twist on Y Combinator Model
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 MoreWhat You Should Read Today
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 MoreEntrepreneurial Stereotypes on Display at SXSW
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 MoreTechStars Grades Itself
Updated: TechStars, a seed-stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Colo., as well as Boston and Seattle, recently decided to grade itself.…
Read MoreCan Cardpool Solve the Unused Gift Card Problem?
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 MoreNotes From a Conversation With Y Combinator's Paul Graham
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 MoreWattvision's Down and Dirty Energy Management Dreams
The race is heating up among companies looking to bring you tools that sit atop your electricity meter to help you cut…
Read MoreThe Top 10 Money-Making MMOs of 2008
Game industry analyst DFC Intelligence will publish a comprehensive study of massively multiplayer online worlds next month, and was nice enough to…
Read More9 People You Meet at Y Combinator (and what you can learn from them).
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…
Read MoreTo YC or to VC? That is my question…
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…
Read MoreCalling YCombinators: Lessons from a “Serial First-Timer”
I don’t think of myself as a serial entrepreneur since the terminology is most commonly used to describe someone who has had…
Read MoreLessons of YCombinator: Things I'd do differently after 2 startups
Editor’s Note: Serial founder Tony Wright recently completed a 3-month stint at the incubator YCombinator, where, in November 2007, he and two…
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