The startups in this batch are generally more mature and further developed than in past years, a continuing trend with Y Combinator as it gets more and more popular each year.
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It's already working on an Android app for release in 2011 as well as custom firmware, co-developed with Y-cam, that will simplify setup and provide exclusive baby monitoring features to WiFi Baby owners.
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One of our reporters, Christopher Steiner, quickly set up an interview with the Y Combinator team.
But Kan wanted to build his company with other Y Combinator founders and wanted his cofounders to have the experience.
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The new branding connects EWC with Gen Y culture and youthful consumers searching for a little self pampering for a small investment.
Having graduated high school, Swartz went to and shortly thereafter left Stanford, setting up a startup, Infogami, which merged with another Y Combinator startup, Reddit.
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Generation X (those born between 1965 and 1978) is a group that grew up with financial and work insecurity and has little in common with Generation Y or baby boomers, believes O'Neill.
Several surveys over the past couple of years have proclaimed that American job satisfaction is at its lowest level in two decades across all generations, with Generation Y exhibiting particularly high job dissatisfaction.
In contrast, on a whim at OkCupid, if we wanted to know whether our users had ever done thing X with a Y on hand while thinking about Z, we could get a few hundred thousand answers in a couple days.
The death rate was 2.1 percent with the open Roux-en-Y and 0.2 percent with the laparoscopic version. (Some patients who underwent the open Roux-en-Y had health factors that put them at greater risk for complications.) There were no deaths associated with laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding.
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This type of content is very popular with the connected Gen Y generation, and can go viral quickly with social sharing functions.
While the PC group posted a 8% y-o-y decline, the data center group looked promising with a 6% y-o-y increase.
Defying macro headwinds, Expedia posted a stellar Q3 2012 with 17% y-o-y growth in revenues.
With JIT only Y parts were ordered, and the kanban was sent off as soon as the new order arrived.
Excluding Facebook, Twitter is the only product with proven abilit y to entice norma l people to produce and share content on a broad array of topics in scale.
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To make sure that he is on top of development with Gen-Y, Cannon created GenBenz, a restricted chat, which he uses as a sort of sounding board for ideas and information.
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Two years was apparently enough, for he jumped back into the energy business with SandRidge Energ y, a oil and gas exploration company he is now Chairman and CEO of.
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Merchandise exports rose 22.1% y-o-y in Q1, with imports rising by 40.9% y-o-y.
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In doing so, Amway hoped to tap into the e-commerce boom with a tech-y sounding name.
Foster envisaged it as a "horizontal cathedral, " with its airy, Y-shaped passenger terminal under the great wing of its roof.
Boomer bosses have trouble understanding their Gen X and Gen Y employees with their short attention spans and notorious lack of loyalty.
Other neighbourhoods for a good deal include Glen Park bordering Noe Valley, with its village-y atmosphere and top transport links to downtown.
Though Crowdtilt has spent the last year as a conventional crowdfunding platform, the company originally applied to Y Combinator with the API idea.
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The act is legislation designed to make it easier for young people to start a business, which coincides with the Gen-Y Capital Partners mission.
The veneers will be used on the fascia, console, waistrail and roof console and in a y humidor with a humidification system, cigar cutter and ashtray.
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Williams' absence removes an experienced player from the equation as Gatland hopes Matthew Rees may come through the Scarlets' clash with Ulster at Parc y Scarlets on Friday.
Priceline recently reported its Q3 2012 earnings and despite an anticipated deceleration in growth from Europe, it posted solid quarter with a 17% y-o-y and 29% q-o-q growth.
Familiarizing Generation X and Y clients with Merrill's brand through Merrill Edge gives the firm a good chance of holding on to those clients as they grow wealthier, says Alois Pirker, a research director at research and consulting firm Aite Group.
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With the notable exception of Yohji Yamamoto and Y-3 (his decadelong collaboration with Adidas, which is much more fashion than fitness), fashion designers and sports brands make awkward bedfellows.
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In deference, Yahoo hasn't advertised Flickr, and it brands the site with only a modest "Y!"
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