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The Next Bubble – Don’t Get Fooled Again

Steve Blank

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). The technology blogs (TechCrunch, et al.)

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice. Till now, nearly all seed firms have been so-called "incubators,"so Y Combinator gets calledone too, though the only thing we have in common is that we investin the earliest phase.