So Dropbox is pretty much the best case scenario for a single founder applying to YC.
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And the variation in startup outcomes is so great that even though we have such a large data set, the best single founder outcome is so far better than any of the multiple founder outcomes.
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With a single missing founder like Elon Musk of South Africa PayPal might not have succeeded and grown into the success story it has.
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And if the founder members of the single currency do push ahead towards harmonising tax, it will also become harder for Mr Blair to sell at home the idea of Britain joining the euro.
The most significant issue affecting the future of this region will be the development of the relationship between China and the U.S. The most important single issue on which that relationship could founder is Taiwan.
With last week's announcement that Web search company AltaVista was going to layoff 225 employees, one-fourth of its workforce, I finally concluded that Digital Equipment , AltaVista's founder, is the greatest single object lesson of the electronics age.
When the Young Entrepreneur Council asked AJ Kumar, co-founder of digital marketing agency Single Grain, for tips to help business owners (ethically) boost their Web traffic, the majority of ideas on his extensive list of 20 suggestions revolved around providing visitors with more and better content.
At the end of the day, the single biggest factor we look for in a founder is simple, but perhaps surprising: grit.
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"We offer the broadest suite of motion products available from any single supplier today, " said Dan Simpkins, founder and CEO of Hillcrest Labs.
Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE), for instance, slid into a prolonged decline after the passing away of its founder Akio Morita, trading into upper single digits, down from triple digits back in 1999.
Ever since the beginning of May, when Italy was officially designated a founder-member of Europe's single currency, those who more often carp about the country's inability to get its act together have been lauding its new maturity.
Dr Leonard Sax, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education, even claims a neurological reason for his cause: girls and boys mature at different rates, so they need different teaching methods.
In fact, the era of the single-purpose radio is over, says Michael Ossmann, the founder of an Evergreen, Colorado company called Great Scott Gadgets.
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About 50, 000 women delivering babies each year are single moms by choice, said Mikki Morrissette, author of "Choosing Single Motherhood: The Thinking Woman's Guide, " and founder of the online resource Choice Moms.
Harrington to allow broad discovery, including pulling incriminating e-mails where private equity firm executives seem to be divvying up deals and depositions of leading figures like KKR co-founder George Roberts, who testified he could not identify a single instance during 2003-2007 where KKR made a bid after a signed agreement was made with another private equity firm.
Still, the shield's effectiveness as a defense in cyber-warfare is far from clear: Bruce Schneier, the founder and chief technology officer of security firm BT Counterpane, argues that no single strategy can stop determined hackers.
There is not a single bed, couch, lab counter, library desk, football end zone, university founder's statue, Henry Moore sculpture or monkey research cage on top of which you, the outstanding class of 2013, haven't copulated.
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Instead of peering down from above (or up from the bottom) at one intriguing example of an entrepreneurial company or its charismatic founder, he probes sideways through a stack of enterprises to find the corporate renegades who single-handedly and often against the will of top management turned their companies on their heads.
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