Wikio - Paul Graham

wanted: advertising, but not as we currently know it (Influx Insights)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:01:09 GMT

Paul Graham of early-stage VC Y Combinator has a nice list of ideas the company would like to fund. Included on his list are new ways of doing news, auctions, dating, simplified browsing, better photo and video sharing sites and advertising! "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in...

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Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham vs. "one cranky attendee" [Nerdfight] (Valleywag)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Why might this this summer's batch of incubator Y Combinator's startups bore you, as they did "one cranky attendee" Because you're not as talented at spotting early stage startups as Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham, says Paul Graham in a comment on the SAI post:Statistically it's almost certain there will be startups in this batch that go on to be highly regarded. It's...

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Startup Fundraising According to Paul Graham (Instigator Blog)

byosko@gmail.com (Ben Yoskovitz) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:17:10 GMT

Paul Graham is well-known in the startup world for his past successes and most recently, the launch of Y Combinator. Y Combinator continues to garner a ton of attention, from a combination of the sheer volume in startups being launched through the program, the successful exits, and the way in which they’re shaking up the [...]

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A Fundraising Survival Guide - August 2008 (Pure Play)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:12:45 GMT

From a new blog on my subscription list (Ask The VC) came a reference to this post from the guy who runs Y Combinator, Paul Graham. It is long but take the time to read it if this is a...

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The Next Great Roll-Up…Entrepreneur Start-up Schools (Howard Lindzon)

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:36:38 GMT

I have figured out a way to solve our fascination with investing in start-ups. Take a look at the market cap of Devry (DV - $4 billion) and University of Phoenix (APOL, $10 billion) when you get a moment Mr. Paul Graham (Y Combinator and already bi-coastal) and David Cohen (Techstars). Now consider a rollup of [...]

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Y Combinator's list of startup ideas (Geeking with Greg)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:40:00 GMT

Paul Graham at Y Combinator posts an interesting list of " Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund ". My favorites are Fix Advertising, Fixing E-mail Overload, and New News. Found via John Cook , who notes that many are working on most of these ideas, but "ideas are a dime a dozen [and] it all comes down to execution." Can't argue with that. Please see also " What to advertise when there is no...

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Developing a Superior Psychology (Leveraging Ideas)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:32:40 GMT

Entrepreneurship is extremely difficult. The road is paved with ambiguities, ups and downs and strained relationships. But there is one certainty – the entrepreneurs with a superior psychology are the ones who ultimately triumph. Paul Graham has an amazing essay on fundraising he published this month. It’s a must read. Paul gets at this very notion. Unlike say, pro basketball,...

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Paul Graham: Microsoft Couldn’t Handle Y Combinator (SitePoint Blogs)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:26:05 GMT

Earlier this month we wrote that Microsoft should consider investing in small startup teams in the style of Y Combinator. Paul Graham, who founded Y Combinator, doesn't think Microsoft could make it work. We disagree, and here's why.

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Paul Graham’s Fundraising Survival Guide (The Next Web)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:07:09 GMT

Paul Graham, mostly known for co-founding Viaweb back in the nineties and his current role as high-profile partner of seed funding house Y Combinator, penned an awesome essay titled the ‘Fundraising Survival Guide‘ which I think is an absolute must-read for anyone involved with startups or venture capital. In fact, even the discussion over on Hacker [...]

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Paul Graham on fundraising (Tech Confidential Blog)

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:27:30 GMT

The following is from Ask The VC, where Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson of Foundry Group answer questions (and, in this case, point us to other blogs) related to venture capital investment...

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Paul Graham on Fundraising (Ask The VC)

brad@feld.com — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:56:12 GMT

Today's great post is from Paul Graham and is titled A Fundraising Survival Guide . Paul runs Y Combinator and has been involved in numerous early stage financings since starting Y Combinator several years ago. Worth a long, slow, and detailed read for any entrepreneur raising money for their startup.

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A Fundraising Survival Guide (Paul Graham)

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:39:47 GMT

"Customers don't care how hard you worked, only whether you solved their problems [and] raising money from investors is harder than selling to customers, because there are so few of them." Ad: "Hackers & Painters" by Paul Graham

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Innovation made simple (core77.com)

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:57:20 GMT

Kevin Kelly's CT2 blog (Conceptual Trends, Current Topics) has an interesting entry up about innovation : How to Make New Things Paul Graham, an engineer who can write and think clearly, derived a reliable way to make new things: work on overlooked problems. I found the following bit of advice to not only be true, but profound. Graham describes his strategy precisely: "Find (a)...

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Paul Graham, Changing the World and "Built to Flip" Startups (Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4life)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:41:47 GMT

Earlier today I read two posts that were practically mirror opposites of each other. The first was Paul Graham's essay, The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company , where he makes a case against founding a company that you intend to run as a successful business over the long term and instead building a company you that you can sell to a public company so you can move on and enjoy your...

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Highly innovative YCombinator startups (taw's blog)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:06:00 GMT

A couple of weeks ago Paul Graham wrote a list of startups Y Combinator wants to fund . That's an interesting list, but I'd rather like to know what kind of startups they actually funded, and even better what kind of startups that they funded became successful. Every step on the road from a plan to a success can change the list quite significantly. While I was somewhat interested in it,...

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Two words for Omnisio: Nice exit (mathewingram.com/work)

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:13:40 GMT

The micro-cap, sub-angel type of financing practiced by Paul Graham’s Y Combinator isn’t for everyone, and there are some who believe that it’s virtually impossible to do successfully — but Y Comb seems to be pulling it off regardless. I have no idea how much they put into Omnisio, but to sell it to Google [...]

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30 ideas to be funded - meet ycombinator (TJ's Weblog)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:14:28 GMT

Paul Jozefak links to Paul Graham Y Combinator , who has put together a list of ideas he considers to fund. Rare to see that VCs open the gates and describe in more detail what they are looking for. Alas most ideas are very abstract (and to me knowledge) tehre are few 'real' solution but I guess teh list should also not be outdated just tomorrow :) 1. A cure for the disease of...

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On risk (rianjs.net)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:55:00 GMT

I've been doing a lot of reading lately, and today I was reading "Hiring is obsolete" by Paul Graham. I loved it, and the section on risk really stood out to me, and I'd like to highlight some specific bits. So what you should invest in depends on how soon you need the money. If you're [...]

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Paul Graham on How to Make New Things (Gauravonomics Blog)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:14:31 GMT

Paul Graham on how to make new things – I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly. When I first laid out these principles explicitly, I noticed [...]

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"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund" (Newmark's Door)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:46:00 GMT

By Paul Graham at Y Combinator. At least a couple have to be winners.

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