Y Combinator Finally Gets Some Kick-Butt Competition With Y Permutator
April 1, 2010
I’ve been following Y Combinator for several years and have a (sometimes grudging) admiration for them. The “grudging” comes from the fact that they abandoned Boston and are now…
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Scalable Funding: Can Venture Capital Be More Like Amazon EC2?
May 12, 2008
I'm becoming an increasingly big fan of infrastructure services like Amazon's EC2 and S3. The reason is simple: You pay for what you need at around the time that you need it. This is…
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Why Startups Fail: Run Out Of Cash, Run Out Of Commitment
February 28, 2008
One thing I've been pondering this weekend is figuring out why startups fail. But, in order to figure that out, I had to first decide what constitutes failure. The more I thought…
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VentureHacks: Peeking Inside The Blackbox Of Venture Capital
May 7, 2007
For those of you that are regular readers, you know that as a policy, I don't often do site reviews of other startup-related websites -- let alone pour gushing praise on a single one.…
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Startup Financing: Questions and Answers From A Recent MIT Panel
April 13, 2007
This past week, I was on a panel discussion at MIT on the topic of raising funding for an early stage startup. Also on the panel was Michael Greeley from IDG Ventures. Michael was…
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Why Not All Great Hackepreneurs Get Picked By Y Combinator
April 5, 2007
This week (Monday, April 2nd) was the deadline for startup founders to apply to be selected for the upcoming batch of startup companies to join Paul Graham's Y Combinator group. If…
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Why Combinator? Should You Join Paul Graham's Gang For The Gifted?
March 23, 2007
April 2 is a significant date for many early-stage entrepreneurs as this is the deadline for applying to Paul Graham's Y Combinator this summer. If you don't know about Y Combinator,…
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4 Quick Tips on Raising Startup Funding Without A Plan Or A PowerPoint
March 14, 2007
Before we get too deep into this, let me clarify two things. When I say without a “plan”, I mean without a formally written business plan – not that you should be clueless about what…
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Why It Takes So Long To Raise VC Funding: The Emperor Has No Close
August 25, 2006
If you’ve ever attempted to raise VC for a startup, you likely know that it is a long process that takes months. One thing I’ve found particularly intriguing is that outside of…
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How To Watch A Startup Presentation
August 7, 2006
This article is in response to an excellent article Paul Graham posted recently titled “How To Present To Investors”. If you are the founder of an early-stage startup and expect to…
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