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Exec Creates Jobs As It Expands To New York, L.A., Chicago, & Boston
Over 11,000 people have applied to be Exec contractors, says Justin Kan in a talk with TechCrunch’s Jordan Crook. Exec’s vision is being able to easily solve all of consumers’ local services problems. Mr. Kan says Exec’s biggest challenges in fulfilling that vision primarily involve the logistics of building a service that scales and consumers enjoy.
Exec Expands to Seattle, Justin Kan Talks With “Valley Girl”
Justin Kan has been a co-founder of no less than three YC companies: Kiko, Justin.tv, and Exec. He’s also been involved with the founding of Justin.tv spin-off Twitch.tv and Socialcam. Beyond all that, Mr. Kan is a partner and part-time advisor at Y Combinator. I wrote about Exec after it’s expansion to San Diego. Exec grew […]
Exec Does Spring Cleaning: Redesigns Web Experience, Expands To San Diego
Exec is an errand running service that provides companies and individuals access to on-demand personal assistants (for delivery, furniture assembly, research, etc). Exec now has a workforce of about 300 people and has served on the order of 10,000 customers since launching a year ago with YC Winter 2012. TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha recently spoke with Exec founder […]
Airbnb Strategy: Stay Nimble And Robust
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky and eBay’s John Donahoe often collaborate, according to both CEO’s at Fortune’s Brainstorm TECH Conference. On a panel discussion, both men described the lessons they have taught each other about building a great company. Airbnb (YC W09) must continue to learn, and learn fast. The popular share economy service that lets people stay in unique […]
Recent Fundraising: Virool ($6.6 Million), PagerDuty ($10.7 M), 42 Floors ($12.3 M), Cloudant (“Undisclosed”)
The 464 startups prior to YC’s current batch have each raised an average of $3.18 million dollars, according to a recent tweet by Paul Graham. The math on that collectively means those companies have raised over 1.4 billion dollars. Of those companies, here’s what’s raised money in the last couple of weeks.
Who Is Y Combinator
Below are the Y Combinator partners, the people that decide YC applications and advise startups. In addition to these people, YC alumni also frequently sit in on interviews and influence the decision-making process. Partners That Advise Full-Time Name Description Paul Graham Paul Graham is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his […]
Companies
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Exec
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Exec is a service that provides companies or individuals access to part-time executive assistants or someone you need just to run errands for you. The service will get everything you need done for $25 per hour. |