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“Make your mess beautiful”: How to navigate the chaotic world of startups

Domonique Fines, co-founder of When Founder Met Funder and a Y Combinator alum, offers advice to female and underrepresented founders.

“Make your mess beautiful”: How to navigate the chaotic world of startups

Y Combinator was a deeply in-person experience—until the pandemic hit

For years, the accelerator insisted that founders come to the Bay Area to participate in its program. Then it was forced to go remote—and learned to like it.

Y Combinator was a deeply in-person experience—until the pandemic hit

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

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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

Impact

4 strategies for energy and climate change breakthroughs at the UN summits

Potty training cows could help reduce their pee-related pollution

In Finland, scientists are growing coffee in a lab

News

Full-time workers earning minimum wage have a harder time renting a home in these 5 states

How to watch the 2021 Emmy Awards live on CBS without cable

Fossil fuel companies and advertisers could soon face their Big Tobacco moment

Co.Design

This new platform lets you buy shares of blue-chip paintings. Is it a wise investment?

Beyond AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ dress: 5 acts of fashion provocation that changed history

Toilet paper really is terrible for the planet. Here’s what you can do about it

Work Life

This is why leaders should never text the word ‘hi’

Here’s how LEGO sets can make your workday more productive

Why you should let your employees switch to a different team