48 Hours

It was two days before Demo Day at Y Combinator and Daniel Gross had moved from product to product like I had changed majors at college. The guy had nothing for Demo Day. The textbook thing to do for Paul Graham was to say, you know what, you had your 12 weeks, tough, you are out. But Paul Graham took the road not taken, and that made all the difference.

Greplin: The First Y Combinator Company To Get Me Excited

Greplin happened during the final 48 hours.




Paul Graham: Disrupt
Paul Graham: Y Combinator
Big Churns In The VC Industry
Paul Graham, Brad Feld, Me, BBC
Image by NandorFejer via Flickr

Related articles

• Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin (inc.com)
• From reddit to Hipmunk: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. (meetthefounders.com)
• How Greplin Evolved From Pure Panic To Potential (blogs.wsj.com)
• How This 19-Year-Old Is Taking On Google (businessinsider.com)
• Greplin Founder Daniel Gross on amazing story behind building the company (thenextweb.com)
• How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search (inc.com)
• What is Greplin and Why Are People Comparing It To Google? (socialtimes.com)
• Greplin launches, makes your life more searchable (geek.com)
• Investing in People, not Ideas: Greplin, Y Combinator, and the Right Model for Venture (michaelsinanian.com)
• Paul Graham: Microsoft Couldn't Handle Y Combinator (blogs.sitepoint.com)
• How not to promote your Startup Accelerator on Hacker News (screeley.com)

Jessica Mah: The Most Promising 19 Year Old Tech Entrepreneur In America

Or maybe she is 20 now. But still. Daniel Gross and Jessica Mah you have you to watch out for. Jessica's InDinero, the Mint.com for businesses, is headed for a hundred million plus kind of exit in a few years. Daniel will be swimming in the billion dollar range, if only because his product, Greplin, is just more fundamental. But Jessica has started by monetizing from day one. Three years from now they will not be by the roadside, a has been. They will be bigger than anything we can imagine right now.



I got to know Jessica in New York where she took over a MeetUp I had started and had kind of let go. It had become sort of defunct, and she resurrected it, and I started attending it. I was not aware of her Y Combinator stint. But then I read about her in Inc. magazine. And I shot her an email. Is this you? Yes, it's me, she said.

Related articles

• How InDinero ignored investors and started making money (venturebeat.com)
• Change Generation: Jessica Mah and inDinero.com Make Business Finance Simple (fastcompany.com)
• Live stream of Web 2.0 Expo (socialmedia.biz)
• Advice: Just Finish It! (blogs.sitepoint.com)
• Small biz accounting site InDinero adds new tools (money.cnn.com)
• InDinero (YC S10) Brings Budgeting to Small Businesses (money.cnn.com)
• Beyond Googling Yourself: Greplin (inc.com)
• How Greplin Evolved From Pure Panic To Potential (blogs.wsj.com)
• Investing in People, not Ideas: Greplin, Y Combinator, and the Right Model for Venture (michaelsinanian.com)
• Patricia Handschiegel: The New Power Girls: Going After What You Want in Life (huffingtonpost.com)