Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2010
We reasonably assure that they have oil for their engines, in the form of logistical, administrative, and professional support services that reduce their risk. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. The others go home, empty-handed, but typically energized, rather than defeated.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.
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www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
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."
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.
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