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Y Combinator, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 [1] which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies. [2] The accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View , expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and was entirely online during the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 3 ]
Garry Tan (Chinese: 陳嘉興; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tân Ka-heng; born 1981) is an American venture capitalist and executive who is the CEO of Y Combinator [1] and a founder of Initialized Capital. [2] He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. [3] He was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, and previously a partner at Y Combinator. [4]
His work includes the programming language Arc, the startup Viaweb (later renamed Yahoo! Store), co-founding the startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator, a number of essays and books, and the media webpage Hacker News. He is the author of the computer programming books On Lisp, [4] ANSI Common Lisp, [5] and Hackers & Painters. [6]
In 2012, Valve announced Steam for Schools, a free function-limited version of the Steam client for schools. [144] It was part of Valve's initiative to support gamification of learning. It was released alongside free versions of Portal 2 and a standalone program called "Puzzle Maker" that allowed teachers and students to create and manipulate ...
A marketer at a startup company. Im Si-wan as Oh Jun-yeong/woo jun yeong [3] A man approaches Nami after accidentally picking up her smartphone. Kim Hee-won as Woo Ji-man [3] A detective chasing the culprit of a murder case. Park Ho-san as Lee Seung-woo [4] Nami's father. Kim Ye-won as Jeong Eun-joo [5] Nami's best friend. Oh Hyun-kyung as CEO ...
It developed as a project of Graham's company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed. [ 4 ] At the end of March 2014, Graham stepped away from his leadership role at Y Combinator, leaving Hacker News administration in the hands of other staff members.
Google for Startups (formerly known as Google for Entrepreneurs) is a startup program launched by Google in 2011. It consists of over 50 co-working spaces and accelerators in 125 countries, and provides hands-on lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.
The startup studio trend gained momentum beginning in 2008. As of 2015, there were over 65 startup studios across the world, of which 17 had been built since 2013. [7] As of 2022 there are more than 780 startup studios across the globe. [8] During the 2020s, there has been a notable surge and increasing traction in the Startup Studio framework.