Sentences with phrase «combinator business incubator»

Juggernauts like Dropbox came out of the famed Y - Combinator business incubator and that has been valued in the billions — that's with a «b» — so who is to say that an incubator can't produce the Next Big Solosmall Thing?

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Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

Last week, in a bit of juicy tech gossip, Business Insider leaked an internal memo from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham in which he urged his incubator's start - ups to stay away from Google Ventures.

After laying the groundwork for their company, the founders moved to the Bay Area from Toronto in 2010 to join Y Combinator, a business incubator.

They joined Silicon Valley business incubator Y Combinator and sold the startup to magazine publisher Conde Nast the next year.