$1 million for Tipjoy’s virtual tipjar

Sanjay Vakil e-mailed yesterday to point out that Tipjoy, a Y Combinator start-up, just raised $1 million. We’d been talking earlier this week about the reluctance of Boston VC’s to support the very early-stage start-ups that come through Paul Graham’s Y Combinator program. Tipjoy is an interesting case…none of its investors are from Boston. The company went through Y Combinator on the west coast, and seemed like it was going to settle out there, last time I talked to the founders. But Abb
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