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Paul Graham at Startup School 08

Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, speaks at Startup School 08 about how to create a successful startup.
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Paul Graham, founder of YCombinator, speaks at Startup School 08 about how to create a successful startup.

 

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  • Tim Bauer (10 days ago)

    For those interested I have cliff notes and my summary points of this talk here:
    http://timbauer.bauerfive.com/2008/05/06/paul-graham-ycombinator-unleash-the-cockroach-in-you/

  • sldim (24 days ago)

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  • chrisco (25 days ago)

    all the comments popping up is pretty annoying.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:00

    why post a comment?

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    @00:08

    anyone there?

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    @00:11

    boou

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    @00:11

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    @00:14

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    @00:14

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    @00:16

    hi

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    @00:17

    yes

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    @00:18

    cool

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:18

    Perhaps comments should default to off.

  • Anonymous user (about 7 hours ago)
    @00:19

    loser

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:19

    paul rocks!

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    @00:19

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    @00:19

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    @00:22

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    @00:24

    comments blocking the screen

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @00:28

    shanghai guy

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @00:31

    interesting

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:31

    whoa comments

  • Anonymous user (1 day ago)
    @00:38

    asdsa

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    @00:42

    whats the point

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    @00:43

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  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @00:50

    wow

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:51

    anonymous user allow to insert comments in the video.... BAD IDEA :S

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:55

    good player

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:55

    hocam ben daha once dinledim bunu

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:56

    annoying
    with comments

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @00:57

    WAHTEVER

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @00:59

    yup comments are annyoing

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @01:00

    Good video

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:00

    you can swith comments off

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:01

    this resource rocks!

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @01:02

    very cool.. hope he shuts up soon.

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @01:03

    hmmm
    i dont know about this

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:04

    nice

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:04

    Please stop to do pintless comment like this one!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:06

    i am a comment

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:07

    хуй!

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @01:08

    oh shit anybody can comment!

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:08

    Hi

  • Anonymous user (23 days ago)
    @01:09

    おおお

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @01:10

    dont worry too much about the business model in the beginning?
    loll

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:11

    wow

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:11

    lol... i need money for a startup... i want to quit my job :P and concentrate on the startu[

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:13

    c'mon - get real

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:14

    превеед!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:18

    Money is something you worry about once you realize you didn't worry about it

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:19

    butts

  • Anonymous user (26 days ago)
    @01:20

    wow

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:21

    ----

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @01:25

    hkhkjhk

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:26

    адынадын адын!11!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:27

    ads perhaps? ^_^

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:27

    lewl

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:37

    he needs some graphics on his slides

  • Anonymous user (7 days ago)
    @01:39

    perhaps you'd prefer a coloring book version

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:41

    Non profit

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @01:43

    who is he?

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @01:47

    Steve Jobs

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @01:53

    a very smart man

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @02:06

    pararam de comentar?

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @02:21

    por que?

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @02:30

    lol

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @02:35

    I wonder

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @02:44

    This is about the point where I give up. I'm trying to fund a startup and hearing how money isn't important from a rich guy pisses me off.

  • Anonymous user (about 11 hours ago)
    @02:59

    exactly!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:03

    ояеду)

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @03:05

    testing

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:06

    Great

  • orangejim (25 days ago)
    @03:09

    mike, is that u?

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @03:12

    y

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @03:14

    can u teach me some tagalog

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:16

    rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mayti

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:19

    what he doesn't tell you: lisp has no libraries

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:20

    pame HAWAII

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:29

    (doesn't use lisp)

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:33

    1995

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @03:41

    calculus? why all the math

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @03:41

    I love lisp, and also mancock

  • Anonymous user (about 11 hours ago)
    @03:44

    BS

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @04:19

    hello, i'm paul's pensi

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @05:06

    dum de dum

  • orangejim (25 days ago)
    @05:09

    can u see this comment, mike?

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:13

    he just reads a memorized pre-written essay aloud

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:13

    no i can't see it.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:14

    porra

  • Anonymous user (about 11 hours ago)
    @05:15

    yes the product works!

  • orangejim (25 days ago)
    @05:16

    if u can, mike, comment \me back

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:17

    Ummm.... may be more than one Mike :)

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:31

    is this comment attached to this slide or to the presentation?

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:32

    ah, the comments off button .. poof!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @05:33

    they call me the graham'iester

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @05:38

    can anyone see this?

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @05:59

    Is tis too intrusive and is there moderation?

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @06:15

    My Brain Hurts Alot!

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @06:22

    ugly old logo

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @07:05

    They would have you think otherwise/

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @07:10

    they put a PC in every home, you bastard. they are the reason startups have markets to target at all. show some fucking respect

  • Anonymous user (15 days ago)
    @07:11

    old pc

  • Anonymous user (4 days ago)
    @07:13

    que foirt

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @07:14

    It wasn't Microsoft's doing, they were in the right place at the right time and monopolized the situation.

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @08:31

    Switch to Linux. Seriously.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @08:35

    *Crickets*

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @08:35

    right! you switched to a more benevolent company called Apple.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @08:42

    apple: another company who doesn't use lisp

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @08:46

    apple: also shitty

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:09

    don't be evil (unless that would mean not censoring tienemen square imgs in china)

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:14

    balding

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    @09:23

    gay

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    @09:23

    who is this??

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @09:24

    I agree.

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @09:31

    elixer

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:32

    he's google..

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:42

    founder of gmail

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:45

    wow....how boring

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @09:49

    yeah

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @09:52

    no he's not boring

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:52

    do you always read your presentations while on stage? :)

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @09:53

    protip: saying "um" a lot as a transition to pin down your audience is bad

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @09:58

    nothing wrong with "um"

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @10:01

    actually this guy is reading instead of presentig... it is bad.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @10:08

    stop hiding behind your papers, paul

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @10:11

    dito.

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @10:11

    improves moral

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @10:13

    nervous tick "hum"

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @10:16

    helps to be decisive

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @10:19

    hes gonna say um again

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @10:22

    looks like kevin rose

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @10:25

    i am fucking fascinated

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @10:34

    don't they know that programming with a large monitor or two monitors is far more productive? there are studies on the ROI of 30" screens

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @10:39

    boring

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @10:45

    doing it wrong

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @10:46

    Business Plan? We don't need no stikin business plan!

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @10:57

    empty gaze

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @10:58

    Bloated Ego

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @11:01

    Now I understand why all the YC startups suck soo much...

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @11:18

    Stop pointing

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @11:19

    Tak a good look at the schreen behind him. There is a problem with the image.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @11:40

    He's smart! That's a really good metaphor.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @12:11

    i used lisp for my startup!

    just kidding.

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @12:18

    insert dong

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @12:20

    best product manager ever

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @12:23

    insert dong here too

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @12:27

    Not lisp, haskell.

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @12:29

    dong

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @12:36

    Ta-ma-ga-chi Effect.

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    @12:49

    Good grief, your just a
    money grubber.

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    @13:03

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    @13:12

    hum..

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    @13:44

    fatterous

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    @13:58

    Hyper Text Trasfer Protocol

  • Anonymous user (14 days ago)
    @14:07

    aaaaarggghhhh!!

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @14:11

    Toot

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @14:12

    hi, i'm a startup.

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @14:16

    I'm a Y-combinator start up.

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @14:19

    nom nom

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    @14:20

    Puuuu!

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    @14:26

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  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @14:29

    cockroach

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @14:33

    yum

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @14:34

    Excellent

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @14:36

    good

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @14:38

    cock

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    @14:44

    Give me a roach..

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @14:50

    This bug is missing a leg.

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @15:00

    cocktopart

  • Anonymous user (14 days ago)
    @15:03

    google

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @15:24

    DIGIKEY

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @15:36

    stop reading!!!!

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @15:56

    Or a douche bag

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @15:58

    Or justa anohter clone wabba be

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @16:01

    exactly

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @16:02

    I like ceese

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @16:08

    Ohhh Pay-Ha-Day

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @16:09

    losers

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @16:09

    yawn

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    @16:16

    uhiuh

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    @16:17

    Oh, ust imageine the paradise

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @16:35

    Wow what a gift!

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @16:40

    You're such a great guy too!

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @16:50

    no

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @17:02

    maybe

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @17:20

    Not.

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @17:21

    except for the tens of thousands of engineers who work for the military-industrial complex and use euphemisms for killing like "lethality"

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    @17:36

    to snad ne

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @17:40

    you dont

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    @17:40

    I really like opening my arms like this.

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    @17:46

    open your arms

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    @17:48

    I think these comments lend themselves to abuse

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @17:49

    I do too...

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @17:54

    Jeff Bezos recently said exactly the same thing re: amazon

  • Anonymous user (22 days ago)
    @17:55

    RIght Here the video just stops playing. I can watch anything previous again but nothing after. :( this is the third video with this problem

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @18:04

    be benevolent, damnit! :)

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @18:06

    one day I will start a fund called Y-combinator

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @18:39

    ttttttt

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @19:05

    Stabilist?

  • Anonymous user (24 days ago)
    @19:07

    truth is stateless. - good idea!

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @20:15

    Am I learning anything here?

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @21:18

    This is Trevor. No lies

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @21:24

    how good are you?

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @21:27

    Perfect

  • Anonymous user (25 days ago)
    @21:31

    i'm so so good, like only on mondays and sundays

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @21:42

    Hi Tervor

  • Anonymous user (10 days ago)
    @21:50

    who are they?

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @21:51

    Happy folkd

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @22:07

    No

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @22:19

    picks nose?

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @22:23

    Yum

  • Anonymous user (3 days ago)
    @22:28

    test

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @22:39

    We don't have a credo beside
    making boat loads of cash

  • Anonymous user (7 days ago)
    @22:47

    love more, fear less

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    @23:07

    RedRover

  • Anonymous user (23 days ago)
    @23:48

    st.....

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @23:51

    Brilliant

  • Anonymous user (20 days ago)
    @24:03

    Bible study session

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    @24:15

    I quie school in 8th rade and and am make 8.33 at Micky-D's!

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    @24:41

    OK Dad.

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @25:28

    I am right now...funded by a OSU drop out....

  • Anonymous user (15 days ago)
    @26:29

    Test

  • Anonymous user (15 days ago)
    @26:36

    Cool

  • Anonymous user (9 days ago)
    @26:36

    test

  • Anonymous user (2 days ago)
    @26:41

    Pick

  • Anonymous user (9 days ago)
    @27:33

    good q

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    @27:54

    This is Immad. The most awesome person in the world.

  • Anonymous user (9 days ago)
    @28:00

    hello to him

  • Anonymous user (9 days ago)
    @29:17

    good q

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