From Paul Graham, one of the partners in venture capital firm Y Combinator:
If we’ve learned one thing from funding so many startups, it’s that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders.
Now I’m not going to claim I know more about what makes a company successful or not than this guy, but surely ideas have more than a little impact on the success or failure of a company.
Published: Friday, 24th October 2008 at 5:00 PM
By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.
