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| | March 2006, rev August 2009 Yesterday one of the founders we funded asked me why we started Y Combinator. Or more precisely, he asked if we'd started YC mainly for fun. Kind of, but not quite. It ...
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| | March 2008, rev May 2013 (This essay grew out of something I wrote for myself to figure out what we do. Even though Y Combinator is now 3 years ol...
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| | October 2010 (I wrote this for Forbes, who asked me to write something about the qualities we look for in founders. In print they had to cut the l...
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