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Graham is a partner in Y Combinator, a Mountain View, Calif., company that invests small sums of money in LILO-style start-ups and advises them during their ramen days. The difference between a start-up and a small business, by the way, is that a "start-up is designed to grow - it's scalable," said Graham. Compare a hair salon with Facebook. "Hair salons scale linearly," he explained. "You have to do twice as much work to get twice as much revenue." But once Facebook was built? It grew exponentially...
...worth as collector's items, which kept them going. With their guerrilla lodging site and their cereal boxes, they got on CNN, on many local newscasts and in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. And their site grew - enough to garner $20,000 from Y Combinator, the venture firm. (See pictures of the best Obama Inaugural merchandise...
...Campbell, Brian S. Chen, Timothy H. Hsieh, Wenna Jia, Eric T. Lander, Andrew Q. Le, Christopher T. Lim, Stephanie H. Lo, Mary Anne Marks, Vikram R. Modi, Colin J. Motley, Jeffrey D. Nanney, Hamida B. Owusu, Palmer Rampell, Anthony C. Speare, Dennis L. Sun, Yi Sun, Julia Ye, Chelsea Y. Zhang, and John C. Zhou...
...support 1,200 Haitian students. “Every year we ask the PIH what they need most,” said Fritsche. “Whatever we can do, we do.” PIH was founded in 1987 by Harvard Medical School Professors Paul Farmer and Jim Y. Kim, who was recently selected as president of Dartmouth, and three other individuals. The event began at noon at St. Paul Church on Mt. Auburn Street with a speech from HMS assistant professor Joia Mukherjee, medical director of PIH. The talk detailed Haiti’s historical struggles for freedom...
...Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...