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Kevin sits down with Eugene Mirman, stand up comedian and the voice of Gene on “Bob’s Burgers”
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From accelerators to Zaarly, read about the latest startups hitting the LAUNCH radar.

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Color co-founders Bill Nguyen, a brilliant serial entrepreneur, and Peter Pham, the absurdly good business-development founder, have launched an app for smartphones that automatically lets you share your photos with those around you.

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More than 500 companies applied to present at the LAUNCH Conference, and only 54 of them made it to the main stage last week. Of those, 13 won awards. This is what we  — and the Grand Jury — saw in those companies.

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You guys told us you loved our signature blunt analysis of Yuri and Ron’s new splash-cashy/spray-and-pray angel fund in L006. We’re flattered and delighted. We’re not trying to keep up with the “one-laptop-per-story” tech-gossip blog of note (zing!). Nope, we’re trying to be slow and soulful like Dave Morin’s $100M Path.com.

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A week after our proposal for 500 Y Combinators, the most exhilarating news in the history of internet startups broke this weekend. Yuri Milner of the Russian investment firm DST, along with legendary investor Ron Conway, offered all Y Combinator startups from this year’s class a $150K investment in the form of a convertible note — without a discount.

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An Inflection Point Is Reached

Since Y Combinator launched in 2005, the tech accelerator has become a darling of Valley circles. The company has been the subject of much hype, and its inevitable companion: accusations that there has been much smoke but no fire.