Getting into the Y Combinator is no easy feat but the rewards are access to the best start-up resources the world has to offer. 20% of the applicants get interviews and 30% of those interviewed are accepted, Frenkiel estimated.
Bellows believes that these are the two best seed start-up VCs around.
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Ashutosh believes that once it gets off the runway, Boston is the best place for a start-up.
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Start-up Posterous, best known for its simple blogging service via email, has revamped the company around a new product called Posterous Spaces.
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Rapt, another start-up, is perhaps the best example to show that optimising a supply chain can be as challenging as managing a financial portfolio.
"We have named the best joined-up early years services as Sure Start Children's Centres and they will act as a model to transform future provision for young children and families, " said Ms Hodge.
He figures the best way to get noticed is by working on a start-up.
Feast Upon is a Brooklyn food start-up that creates community out of the best local produce and products.
Doerr has lost 9, 745 shares of Picturetel, a videoconferencing start-up backed by Kleiner Perkins and acquired by Polycom, best known for its conferencing calling setups, in 2001.
The Start-up Loans Company is chaired by James Caan, who is best known for his appearances on the television programme Dragons' Den.
His start-up, MagicSolver, enables smartphone users to discover the latest and best apps from the thousands now cluttering up the Apple and Android stores.
Your Tour is the best tool for creating multi-day road trip itineraries, and this Belgian-based start-up stands out for its deep coverage of Italy, France, Spain, Andorra and, randomly, Florida.
In California Qualcomm has access to the best college graduates and a pool of ideas and recruits generated by a nexus of established and start-up companies.
The best ideas for frugal products can come up anywhere and indeed they do, at small start-up companies, inspired by customers and driven by university labs.
But Spot Runner, a start-up based in Los Angeles, thinks it has found a way to provide the best of both worlds.
The very slow start of Windows 7 is the best sign that the window of opportunity for an additional ecosystem to ramp-up is closing fast.
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"All the products at Best Buy will eventually follow, " predicts Amol Sarva, chief executive of New York City-based start-up Txtbl, which will launch a wi-fi-enabled mobile e-mail device this summer.
For the past couple of seasons the best way for a pro basketball player to make the evening news has been to start a bench-clearing brawl or run up into the stands to attack the fans.
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