Podcast #28 - Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator
Jessica Livingston joins us today to share the scoop on Y Combinator and what hopeful candidates can do to improve their odds of getting accepted. Y Combinator is a technology start-up seed fund with offices in Cambridge, MA and Mountain View, CA. YC focuses on mentoring first-time founders and helping them develop their early-stage business ideas. Aside from being co-founder of Y Combinator Jessica is also author of the Founders At Work book (find the digest here) and has interviewed more successful start-up founders than anyone. This is a conversation with nuggets of wisdom that will be of interest for any fledgling entrepreneur.
October 5th, 2007 at 1:50 am
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October 9th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Sean,
I love this site and listening to entrepreneurs tell their ’story.’ I had read ‘Founders at Work’ and it was an inspiring and I would recommend it ot any anyone thinking of starting a start-up. I would also recommend Guy Kawasaki’s ‘The Art of the Start’. Nice job. Keep it up!
Rod