Y Combinator is an American seed-stage startup funding firm, started in 2005 by Paul Graham, Robert Morris, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston. More at Wikipedia
Fixed point combinator - A fixed point combinator is a higher-order function that computes a fixed point of other functions.
Paul Graham - Paul Graham is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist.
Robert Morris - Robert Tappan Morris,, is an American associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Institute's department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Trevor Blackwell - Trevor Blackwell is a computer programmer, engineer and entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley.
Jessica Livingston - Jessica Livingston is an author and a founding partner of the seed stage venture firm Y Combinator.
Hacker News - Hacker News is a social news website about computer hacking and startup companies, run by Paul Graham's funding firm Y Combinator.
Techstars - TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage investment fund founded in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, Jared Polis and David Brown.
Seed money - Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding, friends and family funding or angel funding, is a securities offering whereby one or more parties that have some connection to a ne...
Business incubator - Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchest...