Y Combinator – Nonprofit startups are just like their counterparts

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Is there a difference between building a successful for-profit and nonprofit startup?  Not much, according to Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, there isn’t much of a difference. Y Combinator is an elite accelerator program in Mountain View, Calif., that accepted a nonprofit for the first time this month, Watsi.org. “You could never tell there was a nonprofit mixed in,” he said in a phone interview recently.

 

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