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13 Ways To Pull Off A Killer Demo Day Presentation
April 25, 2011
There are over a hundred seed accelerators in the world and many more are popping up every year. In New York City, there are going to be 6 more this summer on top of TechStars NYC.…
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8 Reasons Why SV Angel/Yuri Milner Investing $150,000 In Every YCombinator Startup Is Brilliant
January 31, 2011
Disclosure: SVAngel is an investor in my startup, Onswipe, a platform for insanely easy tablet publishing. There is a ton of fervor and talk over SV Angel/Yuri Milner investing 150k…
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Y Combinator Summer 2008 Demo Day: Best Batch Ever
August 15, 2008
I just got back from Y Combinator Demo Day, Summer 2008. For a startup fanatic like me, it’s hard to imagine a more fun use of a few hours. I got to watch 20 back-to-back, rapid-fire…
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6 Y Combinator Startups I Would Have Invested In Back Then
August 1, 2008
I have been tracking Y Combinator (a new kind of venture firm for early, early stage startups) for several years. They have a distinctive approach to the early-stage funding process…
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Startup School: David Heinemeier Hansson vs. Everybody Else
April 25, 2008
The following is a guest article by Philip Crissman. OnStartups partially sponsored Philip's trip to Startup School 2008 in exchange for sharing some of key lessions for those of us…
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Startup School 2008: Key Takeaways
April 22, 2008
The following is a guest article by Philip Crissman. OnStartups partially sponsored Philip's trip to Startup School (hosted by Y Combinator) in exchange for capturing some key…
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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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Disagreeing With Paul Graham: How Not To Pick A Platform
October 17, 2006
I am one of the many thousands of raving Paul Graham fans out there. I’ve read most of his content (Paul doesn’t write blog articles, he writes essays). He is clearly a very gifted…
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Web 2.0 Revenues: Charge Early, Charge Often
September 4, 2006
I came across this article on Dead 2.0 this morning: YCombinator Says YProfit? Besides the clever title, and I’m a fan of clever titles, I think some of the points were dead-on. This…
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Web 2.0 Startup Kiko Sells On eBay: $258,100
August 26, 2006
For those of you that have been watching the auctioning process, the results are in. Kiko sold its assets on eBay for what seems to be $258,100. Original article I wrote on the topic:…
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Hindsight 2.0: Lessons From A Failed Web 2.0 Startup
August 16, 2006
Certain circles are buzzing with the news that Kiko is on sale on eBay. I first heard the news last week, but it wasn’t public until today so I didn’t want to write about it. For…
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