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How Startup Ideas Really Form: Lessons From Y Combinator (Part 1 of 3)

How Startup Ideas Really Form: Lessons From Y Combinator (Part 1 of 3)

by rfoland | Dec 3, 2025 | Start-up Skills

If you’ve ever daydreamed in class or on the beach and thought, “What if I just started something of my own?”, you’re in the exact headspace where many great founders began. The truth is, startups are not some mysterious club reserved for geniuses or tech...
UC Irvine’s ANTrepreneur Center Expands Access to Y Combinator’s Startup School for Student Founders

UC Irvine’s ANTrepreneur Center Expands Access to Y Combinator’s Startup School for Student Founders

by rmrey | Nov 21, 2025 | Innovation Challenges, Side Hustles, Startup highlights, Stories

Y Combinator is one of the world’s most influential startup accelerators, known for supporting early-stage founders and helping launch companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, and Reddit. Its approach emphasizes rapid experimentation, practical mentorship, and...
UC Irvine Expands Entrepreneurship Education Using Y Combinator’s Startup School

UC Irvine Expands Entrepreneurship Education Using Y Combinator’s Startup School

by rfoland | Dec 5, 2023 | Start-up Skills

A New Approach to Entrepreneurial Education at UC Irvine The ANTrepreneur Center at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) is excited to offer a unique for-credit course titled Anteater to ANTrepreneur, now entering its third year. The course incorporates...

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