We have only a few days before the new year ball drops and 2012 is upon us. Many will hope for good health, good fortune and good friends, but in this economy, even more may hope for jobs.
If you’re …
Paul Graham has put the kibosh on SOPA-supporting companies showing up at Y Combinator events, including the popular and investment-driven Demo Days.
Graham founded Y Combinator, an incubator and accelerator program that attracts some of the brightest minds and most …
Former MySpace chief executive Mike Jones announced a new incubator he calls Science today, which he describes as a technology studio for startups looking to grow in Los Angeles. But is Jones giving past MySpace executives a first pass at …
There’s something about Codecademy that made investors plunk down $2.5 million dollars today to help the Y Combinator startup teach more people to code online. Codecademy uses game mechanics to make JavaScript instruction fun and engaging for people who use …
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Mobile marketplace Zaarly announced today that Hewlett-Packard chief executive Meg Whitman is joining its board of directors, and that it’s getting a $14 million investment led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.
“I just love her,” said Bo Fishback (pictured …
Venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz announced today that it is participating in startup incubator Y Combinator‘s Start Fund, alongside venture capitalists Ron Conway and Yuri Milner.
“We’ve been working with Paul [Graham, founder of Y Combinator] for awhile and we’ve just …
Google has acquired Twitter statistics startup SocialGrapple, a move suggesting the search titan is looking to boost its Google+ analytics tracking abilities.
Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Google launched Google+ a few months ago, and while the …
1000memories, an online memory-sharing site, is well on its way to finding revenue after launching a new content-sharing feature today called Shoeboxes.
1000memories, which got its start in life at startup incubator Y Combinator, creates landing pages for individuals. Anyone …
Google Wave was a colossal flop. So why are the founders of Stypi trying to revive the idea of Wave-style collaborative software?
We caught up with the Stypi team at VentureBeat’s San Francisco office and asked them exactly that. This …
A few lucky people got a peek at the future of online advertising recently, thanks to a Y Combinator event.
Close to 200 entrepreneurs, marketers, publishers, and venture capitalists packed Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on Sept. 14 for …
Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk today announced it is adding routes from Amtrak to its travel search site.
The train results now appear in-line with flights whenever users search for a travel route. The results only show up when …
Web development and basic coding skills shouldn’t be the mysterious domain of a handful of overpaid engineers, and if the Codecademy founders have anything to say about it, the boundaries of that domain will soon be rapidly expanding.
This small …
Y Combinator‘s Demo Days this year featured a crush of innovation and excitement. After 63 startups presented to a room full of reporters, VCs and other influencers, we were all exhausted — none more than the belles of this particular …
Customer help desk management provider Zendesk today announced that it is opening a new office in Denmark and is teaming up with nearly a dozen startup incubators around the world to give its customer support software.
The company is working …
ZigFu is letting developers race “from zero to working motion apps in a couple minutes,” the company’s co-founder Amir Hirsch told VentureBeat.
This startup is from the most recent batch of Y Combinator companies, and it’s all about making gestural …
When you and I were kids, we played with (and learned from) toys like Lego and handmade puppets. These days, kids are turning to digital gadgets like the iPad.
Launchpad Toys wants to create a suite of creative play tools …
Going through page after page of SEC filings is our idea of a fun time on a Saturday night. For the rest of you, there’s MarketBrief, which turns complicated SEC filings into short, simple news articles in about a second.…
Interstate, a new application that launched today at Y Combinator‘s Demo Days, is a simple tool that allows company founders, project managers and others to share their future plans with customers, clients and even employees.
The tool works for developers …
Flight search startup Hipmunk could be profitable if it wanted to be — but it’s more interested in growing as quickly as possible.
And it looks like the growth strategy is working. The site passed 1 million monthly searches this …
[Update: We've just heard from a close source close to the investor syndicate on the pending round, and he said it's not true the founders are getting a majority of the round. He would not specify details.]
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