In 2005, Y Combinator developed a new model of startup funding. Twice a year we invest a small amount of money (average $18k) in a large number of startups (currently 60). The startups move to Silicon Valley for 3 months, during which we work intensively with them to get the company into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, when the startups present to a large audience of investors. But YC doesn't end on Demo Day. We and the YC alumni network continue to help founders for the life of their company, and beyond.
Since 2005 we've funded over 300 startups, including Loopt, Reddit, Clustrix, Wufoo, Scribd, Xobni, Weebly, Songkick, Disqus, Dropbox, ZumoDrive, Justin.tv, Heroku, Posterous, Airbnb, Heyzap, Cloudkick, DailyBooth, WePay, and Bump.
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Chromebook (google.com) |
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240 points by atularora 3 hours ago 226 comments |
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Angry Birds for Chrome in Canvas and WebGL (google.com) |
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122 points by patrickaljord 3 hours ago 60 comments |
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Google Tasks API Released [APIs] (google.com) |
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38 points by nikosdimopoulos 1 hour ago 6 comments |
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Google Storage Now Available To Developers (google.com) |
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128 points by ASUmusicMAN 4 hours ago 40 comments |
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Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN (pintpay.com) |
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60 points by gpl1 2 hours ago 55 comments |
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Why Donald Knuth Checks E-mail Only Once Every Three Months (calnewport.com) |
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50 points by da5e 2 hours ago 24 comments |
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Google: Go ahead and hack the Chrome Book (techcrunch.com) |
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30 points by MatthewB 1 hour ago 5 comments |
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Monthly Chromebook subscriptions for businesses ($28/mo) and schools ($20/mo) (google.com) |
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59 points by thekevan 3 hours ago 21 comments |
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Angry Birds on Chrome (angrybirds.com) |
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48 points by gabaix 3 hours ago 17 comments |
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"The worst algorithm in the world?" (bosker.wordpress.com) |
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31 points by mccutchen 2 hours ago 12 comments |
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Google one-ups Apple with 5 percent payment fee (venturebeat.com) |
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39 points by evo_9 3 hours ago 24 comments |
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Bootstrap Marketing: Ideas that don't suck (spencerfry.com) |
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83 points by bry 5 hours ago 12 comments |
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It's Time to Drop the "F" Bomb - or "Lies, Damn Lies, and NoSQL." (basho.com) |
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54 points by pharkmillups 1 hour ago 17 comments |
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Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions (technovelgy.com) |
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13 points by otherwise 1 hour ago 1 comment |
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Important languages to learn to understand different approaches and concepts (stackoverflow.com) |
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125 points by fogus 7 hours ago 56 comments |
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Finally, Google Tasks API (google.com) |
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15 points by toomanymike 1 hour ago 3 comments |
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How Garbage Collection differs in the three big JVMs (dynatrace.com) |
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33 points by kumarshantanu 3 hours ago 3 comments |
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How The Martha Graham Google Logo is Animated (acumenholdings.com) |
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6 points by joshclemence 29 minutes ago discuss |
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Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping (springerlink.com) |
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22 points by llambda 2 hours ago 4 comments |
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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly? (stackexchange.com) |
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44 points by m_myers 3 hours ago 14 comments |
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In Fifty Days, Payments Innovation Will Stop In Silicon Valley (quora.com) |
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336 points by thinkcomp 14 hours ago 184 comments |
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Why Google Does Not Own Skype (cnn.com) |
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114 points by vladd 8 hours ago 76 comments |
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Please review my weekend project. 100% client side webapp. Scales infinitely (tvdinnr.com) |
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41 points by ljlolel 5 hours ago 36 comments |
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Show HN: Fast, free online meetings - use code "hackernews" to play (meetingburner.com) |
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9 points by aresant 1 hour ago 11 comments |
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Scraping, cleaning, and selling big data (oreilly.com) |
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51 points by uberstart 6 hours ago 8 comments |
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FBI: If you knew what your phone company tells us, you'd probably sue (aclu.org) |
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358 points by trotsky 18 hours ago 66 comments |
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Symantec says change your Facebook password now (ubergizmo.com) |
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18 points by ashwinraghav 2 hours ago 6 comments |
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Programming is… (mrclay.org) |
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99 points by Concours 9 hours ago 17 comments |
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Facebook Leaks Access Tokens, Exposes Private User Data to Advertisers (eweek.com) |
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4 points by mwbiz 36 minutes ago discuss |
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Philip Morris CEO: Cigs not that hard to quit (sfgate.com) |
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3 points by lotusleaf1987 11 minutes ago discuss |
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