These 7 Companies Raised Over $140 Million In Funding This Week
SoundCloud, which develops an online service to allow users to record, promote, and share sounds with others raised funding reported to be worth $50M. The round was led by led…
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Apply Now: Y Combinator Applications for Winter 2012 Funding Are Now Open
San Francisco based startup incubator Y Combinator has today announced via Twitter that applications for Winter 2012 YC Funding are now open. Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding…
Kicksend Lets You Send Files of Any Size To Any Email Address
Kicksend allows friends and family to easily share files in real-time on the web, mobile, and desktop. Kicksend’s desktop, web, and mobile apps allow you browse through the photos, videos…
Codecademy Is The New Interactive Way To Learn How To Code
Y-Combinator unveiled its 63 graduates at the just ended demo day for its Summer 2011 class. Codecademy, one of the startups that graduated from the summer class is seeking to…
Y Combinator Graduates 63 Startups, 31 Presenting To Investors
Y Combinator today is graduating 63 new companies, its largest and most biggest class ever. 31 of the startups are presenting themselves on the record for investors at the new…
[Apply To Attend] 2011 Startup School
Are you a hacker who has thought about one day starting a startup? Have you already started it? Then you’re invited to a free, one-day startup school this October 29…
InDinero Is Mint.com For The Small Business Owner
inDinero creates software to help small businesses better track and manage their finances. Indinero aims to provide its users with instant insights into the finances of their companies. inDinero was…
12 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should Own A Blog
The best part of blogging is the people you will meet You Will Meet Other Smart People Each article that you publish is a synthesized thought process that may click…
Some of The Best Online Resources (Blogs, Articles, etc.) On Startups
Articles Andy Rachleff on Entrepreneurship from a VC perspective: http://iinnovate.blogspot.com/20… Eric Ries on Building a Lean Startup: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/… (more at http://www.startuplessonslearned…) Achieving Product-Market Fit (Horowitz): http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/20/… Dave McClure’s, Startup Metrics…
The Combined Value of Top 21 Y Combinator Companies Is $4.7 Billion
In Paul Graham’s latest article on Y Combinator Numbers, he answered a question posed to him in his recent interview on how YC is doing. He stated that the best…
Founder Spotlight: Drew Houston, Founder & CEO At Dropbox
Dropbox was founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, two MIT students tired of emailing files to themselves to work from more than one computer. Dropbox is a…
Startup Founder Lessons: Paul Biggar On Why YCombinator-backed NewsTilt Was Shutdown
Paul Biggar is a compiler geek, with a slant towards scripting languages. He work on the Javascript team at Mozilla. Before that he did a PhD in compiler optimizations, static…
15 Of The Best Resources To Quick Start Your Business
Most businesses need resources to get off the ground. Others rely on their experiences from the past. If you need assistance, inspiration, success stories in your niche business, guides and…
Google Acquires Five-Month-Old Startup, TalkBin
Launched in December of 2010, TalkBin provides a simple platform for consumers to give immediate feedback to local businesses. Users who download the mobile app can connect in real-time with…
Set Up A Web-based Phone System for Your Business With TellFi
TellFi, is one of Y Combinator’s newly launched startups. It lets you handle call forwarding, voicemail, extensions and even call analysis with ease and from a super simple web interface…
Startup Founder Lessons: Fahd Butt on Why thinkpanda.com Failed
Fahd Butt was the founder, Chief Technology Officer at Thinkpanda (An academic research and collaboration platform). He is now the Founding Engineer (Employee #1) at Y Combinator-backed Nowmov (Nowmov is…