Somehow I missed a whole summer of Paul Graham essays. Anyways I’m on top of things again — and after reading one of his latest I browsed over to see what’s new at Y Combinator. If you don’t know (I might not nail all the details but here’s the gist), Y Combinator provides seed-stage funding and support [...]
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Boston’s case illustrates the difficulty you’d have establishing a new startup hub this late in the game. If you wanted to create a startup hub by reproducing the way existing ones happened, the way to do it would be to establish a first-rate research university in a place so nice that rich people wanted to live there. [...]
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