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SIMPLY PUT: Founder Mode — the secret sauce to startup success or fancy term for hustle and micromanagement?
Founder Mode is the latest trend in Silicon Valley, emphasising a hands-on approach by CEOs in thei…
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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles
Defense startup Ares Industries says it can make anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10 times cheape…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired
"People have been claiming YC fired Sam Altman. That's not true," said the startup accelerator's fo…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Insider Today: Y Combinator's Demo Day decline
Y Combinator's Demo Day has lost some of its luster due to VCs cutting deals ahead of time. Microso…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Tesla is approaching its 'most hyped' event in a decade. Here's what Wall Street is expecting from Robotaxi Day.
All eyes are on Elon Musk's carmaker as it readies to unveil the car it's been talking about for ye…
Jennifer Sor
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Y Combinator CEO on leaving Palantir: 'I'm working like a dog for Peter Thiel... Who's the real chump?'
Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator, was Palantir's tenth employee, but decided to join Y Combinator…
Will Gendron
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These 10 Indian startups are taking part in Y Combinator’s demo day
One of the world’s most renowned accelerator programmes, Y Combinator, is concluding its summer pro…
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Y Combinator warns startup founders that 'things don't look good' in the economy right now and shares 8 tips to survive a downturn
The famous incubator told founders that no one can "predict how bad the economy will get" and told …
Katie Canales
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Y Combinator pulls back from late-stage startup investing to focus on its core accelerator program, and parts ways with 17 employees
Y Combinator decided to refocus after finding that late-stage investing was a "distraction" from it…
Madeline Renbarger
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Y Combinator was an enclave where tech founders rubbed shoulders with billionaires. Then the coronavirus hit.
In Insider Weekly, we're looking at how COVID pushed Y Combinator into a big growth spurt and what …
Matt Turner,Phil Rosen
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Y Combinator's all-star alum and VC Garry Tan returns to take over the accelerator as its chief executive
Tan will take over for Geoff Ralston next year as the CEO of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, …
Madeline Renbarger,Melia Russ…
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BITS Pilani’s startup accelerator Conquest hosts its Demo Day in Bangalore
Conquest is a student-run startup accelerator run by 30 engineering students of BITS Pilani.It star…
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A Silicon Valley insider gave up watching TV aged 13 and says the secret to success involves completely reframing the meaning of hard work
The influential Silicon Valley seed capitalist says that hard work can be learned and that successf…
Stephen Jones
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I got into Y Combinator as a solo founder and left with a $4.5 million investment. Here's how I got in on my second try and what it was like.
Y Combinator's Demo Day helped startup founder Kathryn Cross raise $4.5 million from investors like…
Claire Turrell
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Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's iconic accelerator, will have startups pitch in prerecorded videos for its upcoming Demo Day due to the coronavirus
According to Y Combinator, presentations will be pre-recorded and released to all investors on Marc…
Megan Hernbroth
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Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian called out his former VC firm, Initialized Capital, for not congra…
Samantha Stokes
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See the pitch deck that landed this Y Combinator startup more than $3 million in funding before they took the stage at the accelerator's famed Demo Day
The hubbub and two-day-long pitch event can make it difficult for young companies to stand out. Sie…
Megan Hernbroth
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Here's the fintech pitch that wowed investors at Y Combinator's annual Demo Day and helped mobile banking startup Sable raise $2.7 million in seed funding
During the 3-month sprint, Sable hired engineers, secured banking partnerships, and started buildin…
Megan Hernbroth
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Jack Dorsey's former chief of staff and the woman behind Y Combinator's legendary Demo Day are joining All Raise, a nonprofit trying to close the funding gap for women
The Bay Area non-profit was formed by 38 former venture capital investors, CEOs, founders, and othe…
Megan Hernbroth
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This founder raised $1 million before Y Combinator's Demo Day to make a better database communications tool for distributed teams. Now he needs a team.
Y Combinator's Demo Day, which actually spans two full days in a massive warehouse in San Francisco…