How Y Combinator Is Remaking Silicon Valley in Its Image
July 30th, 2010 admin
Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday. After five impressive years’ worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding. The incubator’s second Angelconf , held at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. today, packed the room with people with an interest in breaking into the frothy angel investing space — a mix of people from recently successful tech startups …
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