Y Combinator

We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most important quality would be intelligence .

当我们创办YCombinator的时候，我们曾经认为创业者最重要的素质是「智力」，换句话说，聪明。

One company that I admire is Y Combinator for realizing that there 's a new economy coming .

我欣赏的公司是YCombinator，原因是它意识到了一种新经济的到来。

The book would have benefited from more critical thinking , especially in examining the real returns from y combinator .

更具批判性的思维本来会使这本书更出色，特别是在考察ycombinator的实际回报方面。

When history comes to assess the present era of Silicon Valley , several chapters will be dedicated to y combinator .

如果历史要对目前的硅谷时代做出评价的话，有几章要献给ycombinator。

Y Combinator , for example , reportedly receives one application per minute , with an acceptance rate hovering just above one percent .

例如，YCombinator据称每分钟就会收到一个申请，而通过率仅在1%左右。

When the company joined Y Combinator , the top comment on Hacker News asked , How is Product Hunt even a business ?

在公司在加入YCombinator时，HackerNews上被顶到首位的评论质问道：ProductHunt竟然也能算得上是一项业务？

Stross compares Y Combinator to writing a graduate school dissertation , an intense period of study and activity with little formal structure or curriculum .

斯特罗斯将在YCombinator的经历比作撰写一篇研究生学位论文，那是一段学习和活动都很紧张的时期，几乎没有正式的结构或课程。

Earlier this year , Y Combinator 's president , Sam Altman , said he thought the message board might be with $ 500 million .

今年上半年，YCombinator的总裁萨姆o阿尔特曼就曾说过，他估计这个留言板上的用户群体整体价值可能有5亿美元。

Witness Paul Graham , a co-founder of the seed accelerator Y Combinator , imploring his staff to exercise .

比如，创业孵化器YCombinator联合创始人保罗o格雷厄姆恳请他的员工锻炼身体。

According to the founders , the value of the portfolio of companies that y combinator has hatched is in the billions of dollars .

据ycombinator的创始人介绍，该机构培养的企业现已价值数十亿美元。

Hacker News , the message board of accelerator program Y Combinator , has long been the de facto online community for Silicon Valley startups .

长久以来，企业孵化器YCombinator设立的网络留言板HackerNews一直是硅谷各初创公司实际上的线上社区。

Fast Forward , an incubator exclusively for non-profits , launches this summer and has already accepted five companies ( two of which were also in Y Combinator ) .

专门针对非营利性组织的孵化器FastForward将于今夏启动，而且已经投资了五家公司（其中两家同时也进入了YCombinator）。

Of all the businesses he 's helped fund , Instacart remains one of the most used by Y Combinator co-founder Graham and his wife Jessica .

YCombinator联合创始人格雷厄姆资助过的所有初创公司当中，Instacart仍然是他和妻子杰西卡最经常使用的服务平台之一。

The buzzy firms usually ones coming out of startup incubators , like techstars or Y combinator have a bit more power to ignore the blog .

一些颇有名气的公司（这些公司通常来自TechStars或YCombinator创立的新创企业孵化基金）有实力不买TechCrunch的帐。

I also spoke with Sam Altman , the president of Y Combinator , one of the best-known providers of first-step seed money for tech start-ups .

我还和YCombinator公司总裁萨姆·奥特曼（SamAltman）交谈过。YCombinator是为科技创业企业提供起步阶段种子资金的最知名公司之一。

After completing the Y Combinator accelerator programme in Silicon Valley in 2011 , the founders of Codecademy , a site that teaches computer programming , moved back to New York .

2011年在硅谷参加完YCombinator创业孵化器项目后，Codecademy网站的创始人们回到了纽约，该网站教授电脑编程技能。

Y Combinator says it wants to to speed up the adoption of technologies for ordinary people , not just build " crazy libertarian utopias for techies . "

YCombinator表示，它希望加快普及面向普通人的技术，而非仅仅是“为技术迷建造疯狂的自由意志主义乌托邦”。

Following the success of Y combinator , which spawned breakout hits airbnb and Dropbox , thousands of startup accelerator programs sprung up across the country .

自Y孵化器（YCombinator）成功催生热门企业Airbnb和Dropbox之后，上千个初创公司加速器项目在美国如雨后春笋般涌现出来。

As Matt Krisiloff , a former director at the Y Combinator start-up accelerator in Silicon Valley said , " Start-ups are a lot less cool than they used to be . "

正如硅谷创业孵化器YC的前总监MattKrisiloff所说的：“创业公司已经远没有以前那么酷了。”

When the company joined Y Combinator , the top comment on Hacker News asked , " How is Product Hunt even a business ? " calling the decision " another disappointing move . "

在公司在加入YCombinator时，HackerNews上被顶到首位的评论质问道：“ProductHunt竟然也能算得上是一项业务？”并称这一决策为“又一次令人失望的行动”。

Paul Graham , a partner at the Y Combinator startup accelerator , wrote in 2007 that startups usually die because they run out of money or a founder leaves .

比如著名孵化器YCombinator的创始人保罗o格雷厄姆2007年就曾在文中表示，创业公司倒闭的原因通常是耗光了资金或是某位创始人离职。

Sam Altman , president of the tech incubator Y Combinator , recently proposed to fund research into U.B.I. The firm has received thousands of applications for research funding , Mr. Altman said ;

孵化技术创业公司的YCombinator公司总裁萨姆·奥尔特曼（SamAltman）最近打算给针对UBI的研究提供一些资助。奥尔特曼表示，公司已经收到数千份研究资金申请；

Firms like DST and Y combinator are expanding the market by converting previous non-consumers of venture capital into consumers ( at both the very late and very early stages ) and growing the market as a result .

像DST、创业基金YCombinator这样的企业（包括处于发展晚期和发展早期）正在将过去非风投消费者转化为风投消费者，以实现市场扩张。

it plans to select winning recipients within a few weeks , and ultimately Y Combinator plans to spend " tens of millions " of dollars on research to answer some of the most basic questions about life under U.B.I.

它计划在几周内筛选出最终获得该项目资金的人选。YCombinator计划在这项研究上总共投入“数以千万计”的美元，它们将为在UBI之下生活的一些最基本的问题寻找答案。

While many entrepreneurs vie for admission to the more competitive ones like y combinator as a calling card that can open doors to venture capital funding , some are opting out , at least for now .

有许多创业者积极争取加入YCombinator等知名孵化器，把它当做敲开风险投资大门的敲门砖，也有些人选择至少目前不加入。

For a time , it seemed as if it had the golden touch - entry into Y Combinator , $ 1.3 million in venture capital and traffic pouring in from Craigslist , where it posted its services .

该公司似乎一度非常成功——进入了YCombinator，获得了130万美元的风险投资，Craigslist网站带来大量流量——公司在Craigslist上发布服务广告。

Y Combinator , the region 's best-known tech incubator , is the latest to dream , announcing a research project aimed at stimulating ideas and designs that it hopes to use in a real-world location . It is far from alone .

硅谷最著名的科技孵化器YCombinator是最新的梦想家，宣布实施一个研究项目，旨在激励有望在真实世界用得上的创意和设计。YCombinator绝非唯一一家有此类想法的公司。

While some Y Combinator companies he looked at in 2006 commanded valuations in the $ 2 million to $ 3 million range , more recent graduates from the incubator program are getting $ 8 million to $ 20 million valuations , he said .

他关注的一些在YCombinator进行孵化的公司2006年得到的估值在200万美元到300万美元之间，而最近完成孵化项目的企业得到的估值却达到了800万至2000万美元。

As an entrepreneur , Paul Buchheit -- who is one of the partners at Y Combinator and the creator of Gmail -- always said build something that a few people absolutely love rather than build something that a lot of people just kind of like .

身为创业者，YCombinator合伙人之一、Gmail之父保罗？布赫海特总是说，要做出有些人绝对热爱的东西，而不是许多人仅仅有些喜欢的东西。

But this is what he said : " The University of Waterloo . " It 's a public school in the Canadian province of Ontario , and as of last summer , it was the source of eight proud ventures that Y Combinator had helped along .

但他说出的却是：“滑铁卢大学（UniversityofWaterloo）。”这是加拿大安大略省的一所公立学校。截至去年夏天，YCombinator已经投资了八家由该校毕业生创立、并让其引以为豪的创业公司。