Venture capitalists are often contemplating the most intriguing questions in the technology community, and this post from Paul Graham is a wonderful essay speculating on how programmers react to their environment.
Graham is a VC involved with Y Combinator (not to be confused with Yahoo’s startup division). Y Combinator is a very interesting early funding structure for new companies that combines a modest level of financial support with a fairly good dose of team building and advice from experts. The financial support is usually $5000 + 5000 x the number of founders involved, so More»

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