Paul Graham of Y-Combinator on Startups
Founder of the iconic Y Combinator startup accelerator and related aggregator Hacker News, Graham is a hero to masses of would-be startup gods. His helped launch more than 150 startups throughout his career, and he's done so with a lot less cold, hard capital than you'd imagine. As he told the Harvard Computer Society in 2005.
You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.
Y Combinator gathers large groups of startup teams "generally a young, developer-heavy crowd" and infuses them with advice, training and small amounts of seed capital, which let founders keep ramen on the table and prove their passion for the work over the course of a few months.
This program has spawned dozens of spin-offs around the country. More than an incubator and more than a VC fund, Y Combinator has changed how we think about timelines, road maps, the importance of mentorship, and what it means to be a lean startup. The program has also created an elite crew of alumni who still dine out once a week and secure funding for later projects based on their former Y Combinator successes.
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The State of The Internet 2010
JESS3 / The State of The InternetrnJESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.
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It's like "Night at the Museum" for A.D.D. students.
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More awakening to be had at:
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Service Web 3.0 - The Future Internet Service Web
Service Web 3.0 is an EU project under the Future Internet initiative.
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Yay for Hannah Montana, at least her overhyped concert-mania and obsessive fans resulted in something positive...
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The interesting history of the internet...
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This Thanksgiving, Rick Astley performed the biggest live Rick roll since he used to perform live back in the '80s. I take that back, it's the biggest live Rick roll ever. After all, isn't Thanksgiving the day where we get together with our loved ones and let them know that we'll never give them up, let them down, run around or desert them?
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Fake and Gay the secret to success on the internet...
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A simple story that illustrates the forces shaping social media.
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