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What Startups Are Really Like
I wasn't sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decided to ask the founders of the startups we'd funded. What hadn't I written about yet? I'm in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I write about startups.
The List of N Things
September 2009 I bet you the current issue of Cosmopolitan has an article whose title begins with a number. "7 Things He Won't Tell You about Sex," or something like that. Some popular magazines feature articles of this type on the cover of every issue.September 2009 Like all investors, we spend a lot of time trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed.
The Anatomy of Determination
See Randomness
Plato quotes Socrates as saying "the unexamined life is not worth living." Part of what he meant was that the proper role of humans is to think, just as the proper role of anteaters is to poke their noses into anthills.
Paul Graham , essayist, programmer and partner in the y-combinator talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about start-ups, innovation, and creativity. Graham draws on his experience as entrepreneur and investor to discuss the current state of the start-up world and how that world has changed due to improved technology that makes it easier to start a software company. Graham talks about his unusual venture firm, the y-combinator, and how he and his partners work with start-ups to get them ready for more advanced funding.
Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
Response to PG's "How to Do Philosophy"
Back in late 2007, Paul Graham put up an essay titled “How to Do Philosophy”, in which Mr. Graham hoped to elucidate where Philosophy went wrong and why the field, as now practiced, must be renovated to remain useful.A Local Revolution?
The first is that startups may represent a new economic phase , on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. I'm not sure of this, but there seems a decent chance it's true. People are dramatically more
April 2009
Five Founders
Paul Graham on Why Boston Should Worry About Its Future as a Tec
For entrepreneurs and investors alike, it was a sad day back in January, when Y Combinator founder Paul Graham announced he would stay in Silicon Valley year round and give up splitting his startup incubation activities between Mountain View and Cambridge, MA, where Y Combinator has traditionally held forth each summer.How to Be an Angel Investor
When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day I'd do some angel investing. Seven years later I still hadn't started.Till then the best I'd managed was to get the opposite quality down to one: hapless.