Posts Tagged ‘Y Combinator

Editor’s note: The following guest post is by Nick Ducoff, CEO and founder of Infochimps. Series A financings are on the decline. They peaked at 283 in 2007 and are on pace to barely crack 100[1] this year (all data is from CrunchBase through the end of June—it is imperfect but the best I’ve got, [...]

The Y Combinator funded Contagion Health and Health Month have merged this week to form one big health data focused startup called Habit Labs. Contagion Health’s product, Imoveyou.com has shut down in the merger and instead founders Jen McCabe and Buster Benson will be focusing on their Health Month site and building out the still [...]

If you regularly have to deal with a lot of repetitive data entry or sorting, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with services like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The promise is appealing: you can hire workers to complete basic tasks for a relatively small amount of money. And, in theory, everyone wins. You get your tasks [...]

Venuetastic

In: web resources

12 Aug 2011

What can you use the application for? Venuetastic is an application for venue owners to promote their spaces and event planners to find and book venues that suit their purposes. Venues provide photos, available rooms, details and reviews, as well as the capacity and pricing information. Planners can seek venues by filtering results based on [...]

Y Combinator has just unveiled the dates and times of its 7th Annual Startup School; 2011′s event will take place on October 29th at Stanford University, where hundreds will gather to listen to talks about entrepreneurship and innovation by some of the Valley’s most influential founders and investors. While the event is free, it is [...]


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