What Else Y Combinator Looks For In A Startup
It turns out that several of the ideas put out last summer for applicants wanting to start companies at the Silicon Valley incubator are starting to take shape -- and not just at Y Combinator. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham believes ideas about the evolution of technology are inevitable -- and Marc Andreessen may have picked up on a couple. He and his partner Ben Horowitz recently funded Rockmelt, which is working on a better browser, and Apptio, which wants to help Chief Information Officers at large companies figure out where and how they're spending money on information technology -- still an expensive and complicated task. As a side benefit, a company like Apptio could force enterprise software vendors to make better, cheaper software, another problem spotted by Graham as a big one that needs to be solved.
