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How to Start a Startup

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March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

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Advertising. These Spooky Cinemagraphs Will Radically Change Online Advertising. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.