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Text of Y Combinator article in Inc Magazine
- jgrahamc 17y agoI flagged this. Surely this is a copyright violation. If Inc hasn't put the text up on their web site then it's because they don't want the text in that form, no doubt they want you to buy the magazine.
- ErrantX 17y agoyes it is copyright violation. EDIT: ah I didnt realize it was a scan PDF. Not so sure now. ;)
- mixmax 17y agoAgree - even though I'd like to read the article I think we should accept the choices and income models of fellow entrepreneurs and businesses.
- chops 17y agoAs did I. And I will be going out to buy a copy (assuming it's on the newsstands already).
- iamelgringo 17y agoI subscribe to INC, so I read the article yesterday. It's worth a few bucks. Go out and buy it.
- azsromej 17y agoi forgot how cheap magazines can be now - I think my year of Inc was only $7, whereas buying one copy off the shelf would be like $5
- pageman 17y agomaybe there should have been a "buy this magazine" link to: http://bit.ly/175fvY http://bit.ly/175fvY and also a link to this commentary, then it could be under Fair Use.
- rms 17y agoOh no!
- yan 17y ago"5. If you could go back in time and do one thing differently, what would it be? I wish I had taken advantage of all the free time I had in high school and actually learned stuff, instead of spending so much time hanging out with friends." Really? That seems to me to be a minority opinion. Most people wish they did more "high school"-type things than spend time studying. They're not exclusive, but surely spending all free time studying and not socializing is bound to rob you of valuable experiences.
- noodle 17y agograss is always greener. especially in high school.
- pg 17y agoThat wasn't a verbatim quote. All the things in that list were boiled down from a long conversation. What I really said was that I wished I hadn't wasted so much time in high school-- that I'd realized earlier that it was my responsibility to teach myself, instead of thinking that all I had to do was learn the stuff we were taught in classes. Then he asked me what I did spend my time on in HS, and I said basically the same thing as any other teenage kid: just hanging out with friends, doing nothing in particular.
- yan 17y agoHm, the use of the "I" pronoun implied it was verbatim to me. I'd hoped the reporter did a better job at distilling the intent behind interview answers rather than providing third-grade summaries. Do you feel the article did yc justice?
- pg 17y agoThe article was above average for accuracy. But average is not very high: newspaper and magazine articles tend to contain a lot of mistakes. The most misleading thing in the article was the whole guru theme. Maybe it made the story seem more interesting, but there is very little dispensing of abstract wisdom at YC. 99% of the conversation I have with people is about the specific problems of individual startups. Car mechanic would be a more accurate metaphor than guru.
- falsestprophet 17y agoRather than a link to a blog post with a link to scribd with a link to a pdf, here is a pdf: http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/zgarbow/czKBpnLyL8og7wIyznr5xHW4rjpF6FVZBArcROjStc2IE3AHEnCeQxXlpxAq/INC_Startup_Paul_Graham_articl.pdf http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/zgarbow/czK...
- jsonscripter 17y agoKind of ironic that scribd isn't working right for this PDF in particular, I must say.
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- kirubakaran 17y agoMy favorite quote: "Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly. But working for a large company is like being waterboarded."
- staunch 17y agoNot a terribly good analogy. Working for a big company is painful in a very different kind of, much more depressing and sluggish, way.
- ph0rque 17y agoI was going to say the same thing... it's more analogous to being drugged.
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- Xichekolas 17y agoI was thinking it's more like spending time in solitary confinement. No explicit torture, just the slow creep of insanity due to social isolation and routine.
- rokhayakebe 17y agoHate it or Love it, you want to be part of the gang.
- adamsmith 17y agoThe picture is just like of Leonardo Da Vinci's "The Last Supper"!
- javanix 17y agoHeh, I thought it was a bit cheeky.
- pg 17y agoYeah, that made me a bit nervous. I realized what they were up to as soon as I saw how they had the table set up. But I figured few readers would get it, and it would at least be a good composition.
- quizzical 17y agoThe picture gives me a sense of the youthful inspiration and commotion much like the articles does. A great picture and a great article. Anybody in their 40s founding startups these days or have we just accepted our waterboarding?
- callmeed 17y agoSo, does that mean Wattvision will betray PG/YC somehow?
- mattmaroon 17y agoThey had to play the cult card didn't they.