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Y Combinator is already known as one of the most successful startup incubators in the tech industry. But just how successful is YC? And how successful are the 316 companies

A number of new startup accelerator and incubator programs have popped up lately, a response no doubt to the success of the Y Combinator and TechStars programs and the success

Startup School is an annual event co-sponsored by Y Combinator and BASES, Stanford University's Business Association for Entrepreneurial Students. Today's Startup School, now in its sixth year, was a day

When startups fail and are forced to shut down, often times one of the co-founders will offer a short blog post about what happened and why the company wasn't able

As someone with limited (ok, minimal. ok, zero) technical background, I am sympathetic to those entrepreneurs who are looking for co-founders in order to help them build and launch their

In the latest example of VC chatter - wherein multiple venture capitalists simultaneously blog about a hot issue - the topic du jour is the debate between convertible debt and

At Tuesday's Demo Day, the latest batch of Y Combinator startups raved about the experience, the guidance, the resources, the networking that their participation in the incubator program gave them.

Today was Demo Day at Y Combinator, where the latest batch of YC startups had an opportunity to showcase their products and make their pitches to a packed room of

A group of Australian tech investors and entrepreneur have formed a new seed fund that will offer a Y Combinator-style incubator model, with small early stage investment and up-close mentoring

The hot movie at theaters right now is the mind-melting thriller Inception in which thieves steal ideas by entering people's subconscious by way of their dreams. The thing about our

Interested in learning more about how to become an angel investor from experienced angels this month? Later this month, Y Combinator will reprise its AngelConf, an event first held last

The tech industry is full of battles - epic and otherwise - between companies that position themselves (or are positioned by others, perhaps) as enemies: Apple versus Microsoft. Google versus

One of the myriad of challenges in starting a company is finding and hiring employees. You need to find the people with the right talent and the right skill set,

Silicon Valley-based startup incubator Y Combinator (YC) announced today that is has raised $8.25 million with which it plans to provide funding to a larger group of startups this summer.

When Phoenix-based designer Jamie Martin's blog post hit the front page of Hacker News earlier today, he realized what it's like to burn bridges in a connected world. After his

As the month of March trudges on, we are getting closer each day to spring and eventually summer when numerous startup incubators hold their camps for early-stage companies. Many incubators

We hear a lot about how starting a company takes some serious entrepreneurial DNA with traits like ambition, drive, relentlessness, and above all, passion. But some might argue that these

In 2006, Y Combinator founder Paul Graham wrote an essay entitled, "How to Be Silicon Valley." He argues that a tech hub must have nerds and people with money. At

Morpheus describes itself as "a gang of serial entrepreneurs and around 40 startup founders" who are "trying to make a small contribution towards India's startup revolution." The venture aims to

The ways to grow a tech startup company are outnumbered only by the ways to skin a cat. In between multiple rounds of venture capital from investment groups and skin-of-your-teeth

For the fifth in our series of interviews with investors, we decided to do something different. Elliott Dahan, of the START Fund, cannot write you a check. At least not