Y Combinator

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• Wall Street Journal on Grads Making Their Own Jobs

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 118
  Entrepreneurship by necessity has always accounted for much startup activity. Toddi Gutner has a piece in the Dec 23rd Wall Street Journal highlighting recent grads launching firms and also some of the structures and assets that the campus presents to entrepreneurs. Kauffman, Babson, Y Combinator, business plan ...
  5 days ago

• WePay Raises $1.65M for Virtual Group Banking

  
  GigaOM — Authority: 781
  Managing group expenses can be a messy thing. Pestering your friends and roommates to pay up is a chafe, and creating a joint bank account takes a lot of work and can be far too permanent. But maybe there’s something in the middle. To that end, WePay , a startup that’s trying to make group money management ...
  6 days ago

• WePay helps groups manage money, lands $1.65M of its own

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  WePay, a youthful startup that says it will help groups of people collaboratively manage financial accounts, has just gotten some much-needed validation in the form of a $1.65 million first round of venture funding from August Capital and several angels.The virtue of the WePay platform, or so it seems, is that it can ...
  6 days ago

• WePay founders put down roots in Palo Alto, raise $1.6 million

  
  Innovation Economy — Authority: 530
  When I first met Bill Clerico and Rich Aberman last fall , the two fresh Boston College grads were just starting to talk to local investors about WePay , their online payment start-up. They had an idea -- helping groups of people make payment easier for collective projects like renting a ski house or throwing a ...
  1 week ago

• Worth Watching: RackSpace Puts Databases in the Cloud

  
  MSPmentor — Authority: 436
  Most managed service providers (MSPs) know Rackspace as a potential hosting partner. But the Rackspace Cloud effort (formerly called Mosso) is worth watching, especially as MSPs evaluate their own SaaS and cloud strategies. The latest Rackspace move involves a partnership with FathomDB. And it could provide an ...
  1 week ago

• The Advantages of Launching Outside of the Valley

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  1 week ago

• TWIA Episode 8: In Hackerspace SG with Wong Meng Weng

  
  SGEntrepreneurs — Authority: 431
  In a special episode during the Neoteny Conference, Daniel and BL sat down and talk to Wong Meng Weng , one of the co-founders of Hackerspace SG . We discuss the story of Hackerspace SG and how it happened, the current state of entrepreneurship scene in Singapore, and also one of the interesting topics which Meng ...
  1 week ago

• Cloud storage app ZumoDrive gets $1.5M infusion

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  Bookmark this categoryOnline file storage startup Zecter, maker of ZumoDrive, has secured a $1.5 million round of lending.ZumoDrive’s trick is to take a cloud-based storage system and present it as local hardware memory to iPhones and other gadgets. That way, customers’ data is automatically stored and backed up ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cloud storage app ZumoDrive gets $1.5M infusion

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• Wattvision Shows The Power Of Simple, Realtime Energy Monitoring

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 878
  It’s freezing cold in San Francisco right now (which is to say, 50 degrees). As such, I’ve been using my heater like a madman trying to stay warm. I know that’s going to hurt when I get my electricity bill at the end of the month, but I have no idea how much it’s going to hurt. A Y Combinator startup, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Internet Startup Song Featuring Y-Combinator Logos [Video]

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 521
  AppAppeal.com put together a motivational video for Web 2.0 entrepreneurs to keep innovating. Some of the recommendations are to enjoy HTML, adding a feature every day that scares you, tag, tweet, blog, remember compliments, forget insults, Do NOT read Andrew Keen, and travel after you blow up. The advice is common ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Acquires AppJet, The Parent Company Of Online Word Processor EtherPad

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 521
  Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has bought out AppJet , a company that created a service called EtherPad . Several former Google executives such as Aaron Iba, J.D. Zamfirescu, and Daniel Clemens are currently working at AppJet. EtherPad works very similarly to Google Docs but it works better in real-time. Changes ...
  3 weeks ago

• First Dogpatch Labs Exit: Google Buys Former Y Combinator Company AppJet

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 668
  startups , acquisitions , incubators Robert Buderi wrote: Back in May, when I profiled the original Dogpatch Labs, launched by Polaris Venture Partners in San Francisco, I snapped the accompanying picture of a mannequin wearing an AppJet t-shirt. AppJet was a Y Combinator company a few summers back ...
  3 weeks ago

• Googles Checkbook Opens Up Again, This Time for Collaboration Start-Up AppJet

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 763
  Google, which has bought five companies in five months, just made it an even half-dozen: The company has snapped up AppJet, an online collaboration start-up run by veterans of the search giant . That’s CEO Aaron Iba on the right, in a photo presumably taken after the deal closed. Google hasn’t even acknowledged ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google acquires AppJet. Maybe Wave will become usable now

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 159
  AppJet’s EtherPad collaborative browser-based word processor is, many people say, much easier to figure out and use than Google Docs, with a much more intuitive, attractive user interface. Talk is cheap, but Y Combinator-funded AppJet has proven itself by getting a small number of customers to pay $8 a month for its ...
  3 weeks ago

• FlightCaster Raises $1.3 Million To Help Consumers Predict Delayed Flights

  
  Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Authority: 521
  FlightCaster is a website that is able to predict delays in flights about 6 hours before actual airline alerts. FlightCaster is able to predict flight delays by grabbing delay information from the past 10 years. Recently the company raised $1.3 million in Series A from Tandem Entrepreneurs and Sherpalo Ventures. ...
  3 weeks ago

• FlightCaster Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  5 weeks ago

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