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Here's a link to the Artix website (RTM & PG's first startup): http://web.archive.org/web/19961226071744/http://www.artix.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19961

Here's a link to the Artix website (RTM & PG's first startup): http://web.archive.org/web/19961226071744/http://www.artix.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/19961226071744/http://www.artix.c... This is apparently a year into their venture, but I think they'd already abandoned the idea at this point. Notice the ad on the top for Viaweb.

dfranke 19y ago
As long as we're digging up forgotten Grahamobilia: http://www.bugbear.com/ http://www.bugbear.com/ I came across that a couple years ago when it showed up in one of the headers of an email posted somewhere on paulgraham.com, which I can no longer find.
- pg 19y ago
  My favorite is Viaweb's last press release. We actually issued this, a few days before the Yahoo deal closed. It was the culmination of my press-release writing career. http://www.bugbear.com/laspresrel.html http://www.bugbear.com/laspresrel.html
  - vlad 19y ago
    "Harvard University, founded in 1638, is the leading supplier of education and scholarship worldwide. Its flagship product, the Harvard University PhD degree, is the scholarship industry's leading enterprise-wide scalable information management solution. "
  - rms 19y ago
    That's great. I hope someone published it.
pg 19y ago
Holy shit. I had no idea that was still around. Pretty spiffy for 1995. That was before tables. I notice our pitch to galleries http://web.archive.org/web/19961227091110/www.artix.com/how.a.html http://web.archive.org/web/19961227091110/www.artix.com/how.... has a lot in common with Viaweb's http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bugbear/how.html http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bugbear/how.html
- vlad 19y ago
  Paul, you were on the internet for 13 years before your sold your first startup? And you have five degrees? Yet you want 20-year-olds to succeed in 6 months if possible, even without a degree? That's insane (in a good way.)
  - pg 19y ago
    We'd actually prefer if it took longer. If you succeed in 6 months, it was probably an early acquisition, and YC doesn't make very much from those.
vlad 19y ago
http://store1.yimg.com/I/bugbear_1850_80296 http://store1.yimg.com/I/bugbear_1850_80296

dfranke 19y ago

As long as we're digging up forgotten Grahamobilia: http://www.bugbear.com/ http://www.bugbear.com/ I came across that a couple years ago when it showed up in one of the headers of an email posted somewhere on paulgraham.com, which I can no longer find.

pg 19y ago
My favorite is Viaweb's last press release. We actually issued this, a few days before the Yahoo deal closed. It was the culmination of my press-release writing career. http://www.bugbear.com/laspresrel.html http://www.bugbear.com/laspresrel.html
- vlad 19y ago
  "Harvard University, founded in 1638, is the leading supplier of education and scholarship worldwide. Its flagship product, the Harvard University PhD degree, is the scholarship industry's leading enterprise-wide scalable information management solution. "
- rms 19y ago
  That's great. I hope someone published it.

pg 19y ago

Holy shit. I had no idea that was still around. Pretty spiffy for 1995. That was before tables. I notice our pitch to galleries http://web.archive.org/web/19961227091110/www.artix.com/how.a.html http://web.archive.org/web/19961227091110/www.artix.com/how.... has a lot in common with Viaweb's http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bugbear/how.html http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bugbear/how.html

vlad 19y ago
Paul, you were on the internet for 13 years before your sold your first startup? And you have five degrees? Yet you want 20-year-olds to succeed in 6 months if possible, even without a degree? That's insane (in a good way.)
- pg 19y ago
  We'd actually prefer if it took longer. If you succeed in 6 months, it was probably an early acquisition, and YC doesn't make very much from those.

vlad 19y ago

http://store1.yimg.com/I/bugbear_1850_80296 http://store1.yimg.com/I/bugbear_1850_80296