sum sum summertime

Paul Graham's essay "What I Did this Summer" is a lessons learned and 'what happened' summary of the experimental Y Combinator's Summer Founders Program. The basic idea was to fund a small number of hacker-based startups with (minimal) funding and the kind of great access to key people that can be so elusive in the earliest stages of a company/product.

"The whole summer was full of surprises. The best was that the hypothesis we were testing seems to be correct. Young hackers can start viable companies. This is good news for two reasons: (a) it's an encouraging thought, and (b) it means that Y Combinator, which is predicated on the idea, is not hosed."


... and on (another) unrelated note: Has the tomb of Odysseus been found?