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A Local Revolution

2009-05-22T12:39:47-07:00

"What if startups are both a new economic phase and also a type of business that only flourishes in certain centers?"

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The Founder Visa

2009-04-11T12:39:47-07:00

"The biggest constraint on the number of new startups that get created in the US is not tax policy or employment law or even Sarbanes-Oxley. It's that we won't let the people who want to start them into the country."

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Five Founders

2009-04-02T12:39:47-07:00

"Steve Jobs. TJ Rodgers. Larry & Sergey. Paul Buchheit. Sam Altman."

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Relentlessly Resourceful

2009-03-10T12:39:47-07:00

"If you want to know whether you're the right sort of person to start a startup, ask yourself whether you're relentlessly resourceful. And if you want to know whether to recruit someone as a cofounder, ask if they are."

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How to Be an Angel Investor

2009-03-08T12:39:47-07:00

"Angel investing is not a business where you make money by screwing people over. Startups create wealth, and creating wealth is not a zero sum game. No one has to lose for you to win."

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Why TV Lost

2009-03-03T12:39:47-07:00

"Nerds got computers because they liked them. Then gamers got them to play games on. But it was connecting to other people that got everyone else: that's what made even grandmas and 14 year old girls want computers."

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Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.

2009-02-28T12:39:47-07:00

"Preposterous as this plan sounds, it's probably the most efficient way a city could select good startups."

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What I've Learned from Hacker News

2009-02-26T12:39:47-07:00

"There are two main kinds of badness in comments: meanness and stupidity. Mean people are more likely to know they're being mean than stupid people are to know they're being stupid."

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Startups in 13 Sentences

2009-02-23T12:39:47-07:00

"The essential task in a startup is to create wealth; the dimension of wealth you have most control over is how much you improve users' lives; and the hardest part of that is knowing what to make for them. Once you know what to make, it's mere effort to make it, and most decent hackers are capable of that"

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Keep Your Identity Small

2009-02-08T12:39:47-07:00

"Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions. ... [These subjects] become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan."

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After Credentials

2008-12-05T12:39:47-07:00

"Countries worried about their competitiveness are right to be concerned about the number of startups started within them. But they would do even better to examine the underlying principle: do they let energetic young people get paid market rate for the work they do?"

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Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

2008-12-05T12:39:47-07:00

"The reason startups no longer depend so much on VCs is one that everyone in the startup business knows by now: it has gotten much cheaper to start a startup."

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The High-Res Society

2008-12-03T12:39:47-07:00

"An ambitious kid graduating from college now doesn't want to work for a big company. They want to work for the hot startup that's rapidly growing into one. If they're really ambitious, they want to start it."

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The Other Half of "Artists Ship"

2008-11-30T12:39:47-07:00

"The weight of a few extra checks that might be easy for General Electric to bear are enough to prevent younger companies from being public at all."

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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

2008-10-16T12:39:47-07:00

"If you're the right sort of person, you'll win even in a bad economy. And if you're not, a good economy won't save you. Someone who thinks 'I better not start a startup now, because the economy is so bad' is making the same mistake as the people who thought during the Bubble 'all I have to do is start a startup, and I'll be rich.'"

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A Fundraising Survival Guide

2008-08-08T12:39:47-07:00

"Customers don't care how hard you worked, only whether you solved their problems [and] raising money from investors is harder than selling to customers, because there are so few of them."

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The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

2008-07-23T12:39:47-07:00

"The way you succeed in most businesses is to be fanatically attentive to customers' needs. What are the odds that your own desires would coincide exactly with the demands of this powerful, external force?"

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Cities and Ambition

2008-05-28T12:39:47-07:00

"Maybe one day the most important community you belong to will be a virtual one, and it won't matter where you live physically. But I wouldn't bet on it. The physical world is very high bandwidth, and some of the ways cities send you messages are quite subtle."

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Disconnecting Distraction

2008-05-18T12:39:47-07:00

"It was alarming to me how foreign it felt to sit in front of a computer that could only be used for work, because that showed how much time I must have been wasting."

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Lies We Tell Kids

2008-05-17T12:39:47-07:00

"Of all the reasons we lie to kids, the most powerful is probably the same mundane reason they lie to us."

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Be Good

2008-04-21T12:39:47-07:00

"From either direction we get to the same spot. If you start from successful startups, you find they often behaved like nonprofits. And if you start from ideas for nonprofits, you find they'd often make good startups."

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Why There Aren't More Googles

2008-04-15T12:39:47-07:00

"The reason there aren't more Googles is not that investors encourage innovative startups to sell out, but that they won't even fund them. Whoever the next Google is, they're probably being told right now by VCs to come back when they have more 'traction.'"

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Some Heroes

2008-04-05T12:39:47-07:00

"Everyone on the list [has] two qualities: they cared almost excessively about their work, and they were absolutely honest."

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How to Disagreee

2008-03-29T12:39:47-07:00

"If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. So here's an attempt at a disagreement hierarchy."

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You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

2008-03-20T12:39:47-07:00

"Working for oneself, or at least for a small group, is the natural way for programmers to live."

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A New Venture Animal

2008-03-11T12:39:47-07:00

"Paradoxically, funding very early stage startups is not mainly about funding. All good investors supply a combination of money and help. But these scale differently. At our end, money is almost a negligible factor."

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Trolls

2008-02-17T12:39:47-07:00

"There's a sort of Gresham's Law of trolls: trolls are willing to use a forum with a lot of thoughtful people in it, but thoughtful people aren't willing to use a forum with a lot of trolls in it. Which means that once trolling takes hold, it tends to become the dominant culture."

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Six Principles for Making New Things

2008-02-16T12:39:47-07:00

"As I was mulling over [the criticisms of Arc] it struck me how familiar they seemed. This was exactly the kind of thing people said at first about Viaweb, and Y Combinator, and most of my essays."

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The Arc Challenge

2008-02-03T12:39:47-07:00

"I didn't decide what problems to work on based on how hard they were. Instead I used what might seem a rather mundane test: I worked on things that would make programs shorter.

The Arc example has a codetree of 23 nodes: 15 leaves/tokens + 8 interior nodes. How long is it in your favorite language?"

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Arc's Out

2008-01-31T12:39:47-07:00

"For now, best to say it's a quick and dirty language for writing quick and dirty programs."

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Why To Move To A Startup Hup

2007-10-10T12:39:47-07:00

"The difference between cities is a matter of degree. And if, as nearly everyone who knows agrees, startups are better off in Silicon Valley than Boston, then they're better off in Silicon Valley than everywhere else too."

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The Future of Web Startups

2007-10-04T12:39:47-07:00

"It's so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. And if the pattern holds true, that should cause dramatic changes."

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How to Do Philosophy

2007-09-22T12:39:47-07:00

"If it seems like a daunting task to do philosophy, here's an encouraging thought. The field is a lot younger than it seems."

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News from the Front

2007-09-05T12:39:47-07:00

"Things are very different in the new world of startups. We couldn't save someone from the market's judgement even if we wanted to. And being charming and confident counts for nothing with users. All users care about is whether you make something they like. If you don't, you're dead."

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How Not to Die

2007-08-29T12:39:47-07:00

"When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Often the two occur simultaneously. But I think the underlying cause is usually that they've become demoralized."

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Holding a Program in One's Head

2007-08-23T12:39:47-07:00

"The weakest point in big companies is that they don't let individual programmers do great work. So if you're a little startup, this is the place to attack them. Take on the kind of problems that have to be solved in one big brain."
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Stuff

2007-07-31T12:39:47-07:00

"Every thing you own takes energy away from you. Some give more than they take. Those are the only things worth having."
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The Equity Equation

2007-05-18T12:39:47-07:00

"Whenever you're trading stock in your company for anything, whether it's money or an employee or a deal with another company, the test for whether to do it is the same. You should give up n% of your company if what you trade it for improves your average outcome enough that the (100 - n)% you have left is worth more than the whole company was before."

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An Alternative Theory of Unions

2007-05-07T12:39:47-07:00

"Difficult though it may be to imagine now, manufacturing was a growth industry in the mid twentieth century. [...] The early twentieth century was just a fast-growing startup overpaying for infrastructure. [We haven't] abandoned whatever mysterious high-minded principles produced the high-paying union job. We simply live in a time when the fast-growing companies overspend on different things."

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The Hacker's Guide to Investors

2007-04-30T12:39:47-07:00

"Though they're less well known, the angel investors are probably the more critical ingredient in creating a silicon valley. Most companies that VCs invest in would never have made it that far if angels hadn't invested first."

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Two Kinds of Judgement

2007-04-17T12:39:47-07:00

"The more you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors ... the more you realize you can do things to influence the outcome."

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Microsoft is Dead, Figuratively

2007-04-09T12:39:47-07:00

"Ceasing to matter doesn't mean a company is going to go out of business next year." Just in case anyone was wondering.

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Microsoft is Dead

2007-04-07T12:39:47-07:00

"Microsoft cast a shadow over the software world for almost 20 years starting in the late 80s ... and because I wasn't paying attention, I didn't notice when the shadow disappeared. No one is even afraid of Microsoft anymore. They still make lots of money ... but they're not dangerous."

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Why to Not Not Start a Startup

2007-03-27T12:39:47-07:00

"Because of Y Combinator's position at the very start of the venture funding process, we're probably the world's leading experts on the psychology of people who aren't sure if they want to start a company."

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Is It Worth Being Wise?

2007-02-14T12:39:47-07:00

"[W]e can become smarter, just as we can become wiser. The alarming thing is that we may have to choose between the two."

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Founders At Work

2007-02-10T12:39:47-07:00

This is the Foreword to Jessica Livingston's new book, Founders at Work, about contemporary entrepreneurs and life at a startup.

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How Art Can Be Good

2006-12-11T12:39:47-07:00

"[T]he most important consequence of realizing there can be good art is that it frees artists to try to make it."

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Mind the Gap

2006-11-11T12:39:47-07:00

"In a free market, prices are determined by what buyers want. People like baseball more than poetry, so baseball players make more than poets. To say that a certain kind of work is underpaid is thus identical with saying that people want the wrong things."

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The Single Founder Myth

2006-10-24T12:39:47-07:00

Blogger-entrepreneur Mike Taber discusses Paul's assertion that you should have a co-founder for your startup — Michael Dell, for example, became a billionaire many times over. Does the exception prove the rule? It's an interesting question; join the debate.

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Y Combinator: Startup Library

2006-10-22T12:39:47-07:00

Here is a list of links to essays and posts regarding startups, by Paul Graham, Joel Spolsky, John Battelle and others.

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The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

2006-10-17T12:39:47-07:00

"[T]his is a list of 18 things that cause startups not to make something users want. Nearly all failure funnels through that."

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A Student's Guide to Startups

2006-09-26T12:39:47-07:00

"A year and a half ago I gave a talk where I said that the average age of the founders of Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft was 24, and that if grad students could start startups, why not undergrads? I'm glad I phrased that as a question, because now I can pretend it wasn't merely a rhetorical one."

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Startups for the Rest of Us

2006-09-26T12:39:47-07:00

Mike Taber finds that Paul's Y-Combinator is not the right entrepreneurial formula for him, and suggests a different path to startup success.

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The Kiko Affair

2006-08-18T12:39:47-07:00

"This is not just a problem for startups. It's a problem for Google's big competitors too. How can Yahoo or MSN or AOL launch some cool new thing when the people who care about cool new things never visit their sites?

The best solution for most startup founders would probably be to stay out of Google's way."

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How to Present to Investors

2006-08-06T12:39:47-07:00

"Each startup will only get ten minutes, so we encourage them to focus on just two goals: (a) explain what you're doing, and (b) explain why users will want it. That might sound easy, but it's not when the speakers have no experience presenting, and they're explaining technical matters to an audience that's mostly non-technical."

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Paul's Interview re: Web 2.0

2006-07-05T12:39:47-07:00

"The startup world will increasingly be ruled by technical people rather than business people. As in so many other areas, Google is the pattern for the future. The hackers dominate Google, and that's why Google wins."

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Copy What You Like

2006-07-04T12:39:47-07:00

"Whenever I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with no idea who painted it? If you walk around a museum trying this experiment, you'll find you get some truly startling results. Don't ignore this data point just because it's an outlier."

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The Island Test

2006-07-03T12:39:47-07:00

Paul briefly discusses the four things he always brings with him: books, earplugs, a notebook and a pen.

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The Power of the Marginal

2006-06-26T12:39:47-07:00

"Be inappropriate. When you hear people saying that, you're golden."

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Why Startups Condense in America

2006-05-30T12:39:47-07:00

"It is by no means a lost cause to try to create a silicon valley in another country. There's room not merely to equal Silicon Valley, but to surpass it. But if you want to to do that, you have to understand the advantages startups get from being in America."

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How To Be Silicon Valley

2006-05-24T12:39:47-07:00

"What it takes is the right people. If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley."

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Audio Interview of Paul Graham

2006-04-02T12:39:47-07:00

AfterTV has an interview with Paul Graham, whom they call "the quintessential Web 2.0 radical democrat and cultural iconoclast". It's 33 minutes and 20 seconds, and the audio quality is poor, so consider yourself warned. Download: 30.6 MB mp3.

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Are Software Patents Evil?

2006-04-02T12:39:47-07:00

"In the software business I know from experience whether patents encourage or discourage innovation, and the answer is the type that people who like to argue about public policy least like to hear: they don't affect innovation much, one way or the other. Most innovation in the software business happens in startups, and startups should simply ignore other companies' patents. At least, that's what we advise, and we bet money on that advice."

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Paul Graham's Infogami Blog

2006-03-13T12:39:47-07:00

Paul seems to have started an informal blog about YCombinator. It has its own Atom feed (no RSS) and no comments, even if you log in. The tone is much more casual than the essays he posts on his main site.

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Top 10 Differences Between Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham

2006-01-19T12:39:47-07:00

Techbert comes up with a humorous list contrasting the two A-list tech bloggers.

PG: Take further investment from Angels/VCs as and when required.
JS: Don't ever think of VCs. They are morons

Comments are open, so add your own.

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How to Do What You Love

2006-01-18T12:39:47-07:00

Paul gives his spin on the most hackneyeed career advice on earth, including gems like: "[I]f you want to end up working on something you love, it will help if you don't have a taste for money or prestige, since (a) that's how unpleasant jobs are rewarded, and (b) you often have to sacrifice one or both when switching fields. Expect a struggle."

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How to Make Wealth

2005-12-22T12:39:47-07:00

In an essay previously exclusive to Hackers & Painters, Paul muses on the wealth-creation potential of startups: "A startup is a small company that takes on a hard technical problem. Lots of people get rich knowing nothing more than that."

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Good and Bad Procrastinators

2005-12-24T12:39:47-07:00

"[Not procrastinating] is, strictly speaking, impossible. There are an infinite number of things you could be doing. No matter what you work on, you're not working on everything else. So the question is not how to avoid procrastination, but how to procrastinate well."

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What Languages Fix

2005-12-10T12:39:47-07:00

Paul fleshes out Kevin Kelleher's notion that programming languages can be viewed in the context of how they seek to improve on their predecessors: "C: Assemby language is too low-level. ... C++: C is too low-level. ... Java: C++ is a kludge. And Microsoft is going to crush us. ... C#: Java is controlled by Sun."

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Reddit and Lisp Psychosis

2005-12-10T12:39:46-07:00

Dave Roberts has a sensible and positive post about the high-profile switch from Lisp to Python: "Use the Reddit feedback to motivate you to make Lisp better. Whatever you do, stop suggesting workarounds to the Reddit guys or making them feel bad for the choices they made ... our job is to make any such workaround unnecessary for the next crew that tries to use Lisp."

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Is Y Combinator Exploiting Hackers?

2005-11-25T12:39:46-07:00

Rob Lally is alarmed at a job opening at Paul's latest project: "[T]hey want someone with the kind of energy you.d expect in a founder rather than an ordinary employee but they don't want to give them a share in a the company. Plus they want you to go and work for them for a while so that they can decide if they like you or not."

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On the Importance of Writing

2005-11-25T12:35:46-07:00

Bruno notes that Paul Graham (of the recent Web 2.0 essay) and Jason Fried (of 37Signals, the hot Web 2.0 company) both value writing ability. "Writing doesn't just communicate ideas; it generates them," observes Paul. Fried says, "If you are trying to decide between a few people to fill your position, always hire the better writer."

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This RSS feed is now even more unofficial

2005-11-19T14:39:46-07:00

Information wants to be free, so tell me what information you want: http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/002400.html

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Web 2.0

2005-11-19T10:38:46-07:00

"[T]hose who dislike the term [Web 2.0] are probably right, because if it means what I think it does, we don't need it."

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How to Fund a Startup

2005-11-15T10:38:46-07:00

The five sources: Friends and family, Consulting, Angel investors, Seed funding firms, Venture capital funds.

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The Venture Capital Squeeze

2005-11-09T10:38:46-07:00

"Most VCs ... don't want founders to get a penny till the company is sold or goes public. VCs are obsessed with control, and they worry that they'll have less leverage over the founders if the founders have any money."

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Ideas for Startups

2005-10-20T10:38:46-07:00

"Finding the problem intolerable and feeling it must be possible to solve it [is] the recipe for a lot of startup ideas."

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What I Did This Summer

2005-10-13T10:38:46-07:00

A recap of, and reflection on, the first Summer Founders Program.

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Inequality and Risk

2005-08-29T10:38:46-07:00

"[L]et's be clear what reducing economic inequality means. It is identical with taking money from the rich."

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After the Ladder

2005-08-29T09:38:46-07:00

Paul muses on the "decay of the corporate ladder" and why it isn't an entirely positive change.

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What Business Can Learn from Open Source

2005-08-05T09:38:46-07:00

Open source and blogging have a lot in common: amateurs, workplaces, bottom-up organization and startups.

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Hiring is Obsolete

2005-08-05T09:38:45-07:00

Undergraduates are underrated.

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The Submarine

2005-08-05T09:38:44-07:00

An essay on the press, PR and how publicity works.

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Copper and Tin

2005-08-05T09:38:43-07:00

Paul discusses the business proposals his seed fund has gotten, and what he's learned by reviewing them.

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Return of the Mac

2005-08-05T09:38:42-07:00

Are hackers now using Macs? It sure looked that way at PyCon 2005.

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Writing, Briefly

2005-08-05T09:38:41-07:00

Some insight into how Paul writes

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Undergraduation

2005-08-05T09:38:40-07:00

Paul's colleagues offer their own advice to aspiring programmers.

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A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

2005-08-05T09:38:39-07:00

"The problem with VC funds is that they're funds."

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How to Start a Startup

2005-08-05T09:38:38-07:00

Paul says three things make or break a startup company: good people, a compelling product and thrift.

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What You'll Wish You'd Known

2005-08-05T09:38:37-07:00

Paul's advice to high school students.

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I'd Love Some Feedback

2005-08-05T09:38:36-07:00

I'd love some feedback on the RSS feed I provide for Paul's essays. Please feel free to leave any suggestions here: http://www.joegrossberg.com/archives/001879.html

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Made in USA

2005-08-05T09:38:35-07:00

This essay tries to explain why Americans make some things well and others badly.

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The Word "Hacker"

2005-08-05T09:38:34-07:00

What the term "hacker" means in its various usages.

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About this RSS feed

2005-11-19T10:39:46-07:00

This feed is an unofficial compliation of links to essays by Paul Graham and discussion thereof.

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