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Mentorship and kinship: Why startups should consider accelerator programs

Programs such as Y Combinator offer access to seasoned executives and networks that can offer a founder valuable advice.

Mentorship and kinship: Why startups should consider accelerator programs

This Y Combinator for Hollywood wants to discover the next Lena Waithe

Is Imagine’s screenwriting accelerator, Impact, the new blueprint for breaking into entertainment as a writer? One aspirant’s journey through the Y Combinator for Hollywood.

This Y Combinator for Hollywood wants to discover the next Lena Waithe

Why this Google product manager left to work on criminal justice reform

Recidiviz, the only nonprofit in the current cohort at the tech accelerator Y Combinator, is using data analytics to determine the best strategies to reduce incarceration.

Why this Google product manager left to work on criminal justice reform

These flat-pack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months

Can Node’s homes make it easy enough to build apartments so that they make a dent in the housing crisis?

These flat-pack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months

This monthly subscription offsets your personal carbon footprint

And it gives you photos, satellite images, and other data to prove your money is going to real, carbon-sequestering projects.

This monthly subscription offsets your personal carbon footprint

Fast Company Magazine

This online community has gamified the funding process for innovative startups

Founded by a Y Combinator alum, Pioneer has already announced 39 winners from its first three challenges.

This online community has gamified the funding process for innovative startups

How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Pachama is building a verified marketplace for forest carbon offsets.

How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

Alexis Ohanian on why former founders make the best VCs

The Reddit cofounder has teamed up with former Y Combinator partner Garry Tan to run the VC firm Initialized Capital, and they are bringing the lessons they learned from the other side of the table.

Alexis Ohanian on why former founders make the best VCs

Y Combinator wants to fund these wild new ways to capture CO2

Prompted by increasing alarms over the climate, a new request from the Silicon Valley startup accelerator calls for businesses to take new risks.

Y Combinator wants to fund these wild new ways to capture CO2

Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternatives

The Good Food Institute will sit alongside more traditional startups, as the famous accelerator tries to find ways to reduce our animal consumption.

Y Combinator is funding a nonprofit that advocates for meat alternatives

Inside Ontario’s Big, Bold Basic Income Experiment

The Canadian province is giving some citizens a base salary–and measuring how much it helps keep people out of poverty, improve their health, and give back to their community.

Inside Ontario’s Big, Bold Basic Income Experiment

Y Combinator Is Launching A “Grad School” For Booming Startups

The famed startup factory is launching a program designed for the tiny fraction of CEOs whose companies really take off.

Y Combinator Is Launching A “Grad School” For Booming Startups

This coding school doesn’t charge students unless they snag a $50,000 tech salary

Lambda School, a San Francisco-based coding school and Y Combinator alum, just secured $4 million in funding, VentureBeat reports. It also welcomed the first batch of graduates from its software engineering class—a group of 20 students, five of whom were offered jobs a week after graduation. What sets Lambda School—whose classes are fully remote—apart from … Continue reading “This coding school doesn’t charge students unless they snag a $50,000 tech salary”

This coding school doesn’t charge students unless they snag a $50,000 tech salary

Smart oven startup Tovala just got a cash infusion of $9.2 million

Earlier this year, Fast Company‘s Mark Wilson wrote about Tovala, a smart oven-cum-meal subscription service that, he said, yielded surprisingly good food. Its main product is a $399 smart countertop steam oven, which you use to cook Tovala’s prepared meals–think a healthier version of a microwave dinner. Today, Tovala announced a $9.2 million Series A round, … Continue reading “Smart oven startup Tovala just got a cash infusion of $9.2 million”

Smart oven startup Tovala just got a cash infusion of $9.2 million

10 Leadership Lessons From Alexis Ohanian

What Reddit’s cofounder learned the hard way as an entrepreneur.

10 Leadership Lessons From Alexis Ohanian

Could Hawaii Be The First State To Offer A Basic Income?

Talking to one the state representatives who’s pushed the state government to study the policy.

Could Hawaii Be The First State To Offer A Basic Income?

Want A Basic Income? Apply To Be In This Documentary

What would you do if you got unconditional cash every week? Two filmmakers want to find out.

Want A Basic Income? Apply To Be In This Documentary

Most Creative People

The Toddler At Y Combinator

For three months, Julia Kurnia took her nonprofit through the famed startup accelerator—all while caring for her 2-year-old son, alone.

The Toddler At Y Combinator

Most Creative People

Quick-Hit Wisdom From Y Combinator’s Female Startup Stories

A new site launched today by Y Combinator offers frank advice from some of the most successful women in Silicon Valley.

Quick-Hit Wisdom From Y Combinator’s Female Startup Stories

Y Combinator’s Battle To Redefine The Startup Process

When Y Combinator came under fire in the early days, its team focused on their goal to find success.

Y Combinator’s Battle To Redefine The Startup Process

Impact

Old buildings are inefficient: This prefab kit makes it easy to retrofit them

Seville is turning its iconic oranges into electricity

This map shows what’s slowing down the vaccine rollout where you live

News

Morality doesn’t have a political affiliation: Holding Andrew Cuomo accountable

Don’t worry about this new proposed tax unless you’re worth $50 million or more

Cord cutting was so bad last year that pay-TV penetration is down to 1994 levels

Co.Design

Luxury brands once shunned resale sites. Now, they’re embracing secondhand

What Milton Glaser reveals about the absurdity of rational design

Weed is still illegal in states where sex with farm animals isn’t

Work Life

The secret reason you did (or did not) get a raise

Stuck in a productivity rut? Try incorporating acts of service into your routine

Remote work is the cruel new ally in the War on Working Moms