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Before you raise money. TechStars » Funding and Mentorship from the #1 Startup Accelerator in the World. Thoughts. Hi, I'm David G. Cohen. Y Combinator. Harjeet taggar on the webs | start. Robert Tappan Morris. Robert Tappan Morris (born November 8, 1965) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known[citation needed] for creating the Morris Worm in 1988, considered the first computer worm on the Internet, and for companies he has founded.[4] Early life[edit] Morris attended Harvard University, and later went on to graduate school at Cornell.

During his first year there, he designed a computer worm that disrupted many computers on what was then a fledgling internet. This landed him in court a year later. The Morris worm[edit] Morris' worm was developed in 1988, while he was a graduate student at Cornell University.[7] He said it was designed to gauge the size of the Internet. A hole in the debug mode of the Unix sendmail program,a buffer overrun hole in the fingerd network service,the transitive trust enabled by people setting up rexec/rsh network logins without password requirements.

Criminal prosecution[edit] Later life and work[edit] Timeline[edit] See also[edit] Founders at Work - Blog. The lack of women in tech startups seems a perennially hot topic. I’m keenly aware of this problem because I see so many founders, and so few of them are women. I’m delighted to have 6 women at YC this winter (including an all-female founding team!) But the overall percentage of female founders we fund has remained constant over the years at about 4%. We’ve found that the number of females we’ve funded is a reflection of our applicant pool. Anyone with access to the Internet can apply to Y Combinator, but few females do. (1) Several months ago Mike Arrington wrote an article called “Too Few Women In Tech? So why don’t women want to start startups? So I decided to conduct a thought experiment: now that I know more about startups, what advice would I give to myself as a 25-year-old, and how likely would I have been to start a startup even with the benefit of that advice?

(Remember, this is advice I’d give to myself at age 25. Duh. Find a co-founder. Build your own brand. We can help. Hacker News. Paul Buchheit. Trevor Blackwell. Paul Graham.