One of our reporters, Christopher Steiner, quickly set up an interview with the Y Combinator team.
Investors in Mailgun include Y Combinator and a host of angels, including Ashton Kutcher.
Fewer than 8% of applicants get invited to Y Combinator headquarters for a nerve-fraying interview.
After companies complete the Y Combinator program, they are provided with resources as necessary.
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In making this pretty significant change, the setup provided by Y Combinator has been fantastic.
After graduating from Y Combinator in March, the seven-person company now resides in a SoMa office.
It is axiomatic at Y Combinator that growth is the primary metric that determines invest-ability.
The Y Combinator-backed company is still keeping the ability to use Posterous as a public blogging platform.
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Does going through an incubator such as Y Combinator or Techstars send a negative signal to VCs?
The smartest founders are not necessarily the best ones, according to Paul Graham of Y Combinator.
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Andreessen Horowitz meanwhile has previously invested in the Start Fund which invested in all Y Combinator companies.
The average age of the founders of Y Combinator's top-10-performing companies based on valuation, including Dropbox Inc.
Once the prototype was complete, the two applied for Y Combinator for the winter 2012 program.
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In 2009 they got into the hot Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, yet cofounder Paul Graham was dubious.
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Four months later he flew to San Francisco to pitch his idea to Paul Graham of incubator Y Combinator.
Khosla clarified what he meant, saying it is extremely valuable for entrepreneurs to go through incubators like Y Combinator.
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Enter Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, an incubator for young tech firms.
The following summer they became friends and decided to apply to Y Combinator, a San Francisco start-up incubator.
In 2011 Ravisankar won a spot in the Y Combinator school for startups (birthplace of Dropbox and Airbnb) .
She wanted to be part of the start-up community and had an opportunity to enter the Y-Combinator in November 2011.
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But Kan wanted to build his company with other Y Combinator founders and wanted his cofounders to have the experience.
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He founded Y Combinator, the accelerator that has provided seed funding for several well-known startups, such as Reddit, Dropbox, and Airbnb.
Whereas Y Combinator has about 40 spots in its three-month boot camps, YouWeb takes only two to three entrepreneurs a year.
Incubator Y Combinator held its fifteenth Demo Day for its latest batch of 75 companies to pitch to investors Tuesday.
And for Michelle Crosby, 37, the founder of Wevorce, a 2013 Y-Combinator alum, the pain hits incredibly close to home.
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In April, they all flew to San Francisco to apply for Y-Combinator.
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In the book, Stross challenges Y Combinator on one of the most hot-button issues of the tech world: the dearth of women.
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The Airbnb founders came out of the winter 2009 Y Combinator class.
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Incubator Y Combinator held its 14th Demo Day event Tuesday for 65 startups in its latest batch to pitch to investors.
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