The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator torrent

Randall Stross, "The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator"
English | ISBN: 1591846587, 1591845297, 0670923494 | 2013 | 290 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Number of teams that applied to Y Combinator's summer 2011 batch: 2,089Teams interviewed: 170Minutes per interview: 10Teams accepted and funded: 64 Months to build a viable startup: 3Possibilities: BOUNDLESS Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guid-ance from Paul Graham, YC's impresario, and his partners, also entrepreneurs and mostly YC alumni. The list of YC-funded success stories includes Dropbox (now valued at $5 billion) and Airbnb ($1.3 billion). Receiving an offer from YC creates the oppor-tunity of a lifetime -- it's like "American Idol" for budding entrepreneurs. Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross was granted unprecedented access to Y Combinator's summer 2011 batch of young companies, offering a unique inside tour of the world of software startups. Most of the founders were male programmers in their mid-twenties or younger. Over the course of the summer, they scrambled to heed Graham's seemingly simple advice: make something people want. We watch the founders work round-the-clock, developing and retooling products as diverse as a Web site that can teach anyone program-ming, to a Wikipedia-like site for rap lyrics, to software written by a pair of attorneys who seek to "make attorneys obsolete.