2007 Hiring Seed Money Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. We weren’t ready to hire an associate yet so I offered him a summer internship. It was May.
www.paulgraham.com
AUGUST 1, 2008
October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology. Standardization When technology makes something dramatically cheaper, standardization always follows.
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