PodTech Network (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This post is fantastic. I appauld Paul Graham for post what I call the “Red Meat” for entrepreneurs. Paul is known for writing great posts regarding startups and entrepreneurship, but here he throws it down. Many hide their ideas but not Paul. He says ..”We don’t like to sit on these [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I’ve been scrolling slowly down the list of items mentioned by Paul Graham, a partner at the startup micro-financier outfit Y Combinator , in a piece titled “ Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund .” It’s an interesting write-up, and I think a whole lot of people should give it a look. Not necessarily because genius resides within. In fact, a lot of what Graham says will strike most any reader as fairly...
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Paul Graham has listed the sort of startups he wants to fund through Y Combinator. The list includes, well, about everything I could even think of. What did he miss? A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Simplified browsing. New news. Outsourced IT. Enterprise software 2.0. More variants of CRM. Something your company needs that doesn’t exist. Dating. Photo/video [...]
inkling incorporated (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
We're an early graduate of yCombinator , the seed fund started by Paul Graham . Today Paul outlined 30 areas they would like to invest in . If you're looking to start a company, take a look - the breadth of the ideas is far and wide, including an area near and dear to our own hearts, Enterprise 2.0. Read more about our Corporate Solutions Trade in our Public Marketplace
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Three years ago, Paul Graham and his Y Combinator incubator funded Reddit, a social news site that has grown to over 2.5 million unique visitors a month. Reddit has never been able to match the success of Digg, its closest competitor, but in 2006 it got its payday after being acquired by Condé [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Paul Graham has a thought provoking post titled, “Cities and Ambition” suggesting that ‘Great cities attract ambitious people.’ He continues: What I like about Boston (or rather Cambridge) is that the message there is: you should be smarter. You really should get around to reading all those books you’ve been meaning to. I highly recommend reading [...]
Giles Bowkett (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
It's not big but it's happening. The reason is Hacker News itself. He used to command great respect among hackers at large, but his writing's gone downhill since he started Hacker News. That shouldn't be a surprise at all. The paradigm Hacker News follows turns every site that uses it into a groupthink factory , until there's so much groupthink nothing else can breathe. That's death for good writing....
Case-Notes from the Artsy Asylum (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Paul Graham observes that "Procrastination feeds on distractions. Most people find it uncomfortable just to sit and do nothing; you avoid work by doing something else." Are we avoiding doing something else via friendfeed, twitter, plurk? The answer is: probably - or sometimes. Heck, for some people it might be all the time. But for others the attention given to...
43rd State Blues: Democracy for Ida (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
At Drinking Liberally IF, topic got onto education and what trade schools used to be like. I mentioned this article, Why Nerds are Unpopular , so here it is. Clicking up to his essays in general is, incidentally, a cornucopia of thought-provoking essays on business, ethics, technology. Or you can just buy Hackers and Painters and read 'em in dead-trees form.
SXSW Interactive News (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Check out the blog post from GeekAustin founder Lynn Bender about Austin’s place in the tech scene. He writes: “I recently read Paul Graham’s essay on ‘Cities and Ambition’. It was a timely read, as I’ve been party to so many discussions regarding where Austin’s tech community is, and where folks want it to be. People come to me at GeekAustin events saying ‘If we’d all get together, we could compete...
fullasagoog.com WebBuilder blend (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
No matter how much Paul Graham talks about his Web success, we don't hear too often about Lisp-powered Web applications. SymbolicWeb is offering up a new type of framework to help change that. SymbolicWeb aims to create a GUI framework similar to GTK+ and QT for Common Lisp. It differs in that it uses the browser to [...]
Start Up - The Book (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Students from the Ecole Hôteliere de Lausanne who naturally have a taste for good food asked me the question recently. I took inspiration from Paul Graham and Steve Jobs to provide the ingredients. The text is available in pdf. Here is the full answer… Is there a recipe for entrepreneurship? “Launching a start-up is not [...]
Brand Avenue (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
As a follow-up to the previous post, another fascinating essay, this time by Paul Graham on his website, explores the messages cities "send" to their inhabitants, transmitted through you-name-it: culture, form, and economics, for starters. Sweeping generalizations here, but interesting...
Particle Tree (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
A few years ago at one of the Startup Schools run by Y Combinator, Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston invited a few of the YC alumni to come up on stage after all of the speakers were done to share some startup advice and do a Q&A with the audience of potential founders. We were [...]
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Date: Jun 10th 2008 6:32p.m. Contributed by: steve_lee Came across this interesting fimonoculous.com post on this Paul Graham (venture capitalist, artist, techie and writer) article. The premise is that great cities attract a certain type of person and those people combine to exert a certain message. Examples include New York: you should make more money; Cambridge (Mass.): you should be smarter; Berkeley:...
