Paul Graham: Essays
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Founder Control

Tablets

What We Look for in Founders

The New Funding Landscape

Where to See Silicon Valley

High Resolution Fundraising

What Happened to Yahoo

The Future of Startup Funding

The Acceleration of Addictiveness

The Top Idea in Your Mind

How to Lose Time and Money

Organic Startup Ideas

Apple's Mistake

What Startups Are Really Like

Persuade xor Discover

Post-Medium Publishing

The List of N Things

The Anatomy of Determination

What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley

The Trouble with the Segway

Ramen Profitable

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

A Local Revolution?

The Founder Visa

Five Founders

Relentlessly Resourceful

How to Be an Angel Investor

Why TV Lost

Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.

What I've Learned from Hacker News

Startups in 13 Sentences

Keep Your Identity Small

After Credentials

Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?

The High-Res Society

The Other Half of "Artists Ship"

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy

A Fundraising Survival Guide

The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company

Cities and Ambition

Disconnecting Distraction

Lies We Tell Kids

Be Good

Why There Aren't More Googles

Some Heroes

How to Disagree

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

A New Venture Animal

Trolls

Six Principles for Making New Things

Why to Move to a Startup Hub

The Future of Web Startups

How to Do Philosophy

News from the Front

How Not to Die

Holding a Program in One's Head

Stuff

The Equity Equation

An Alternative Theory of Unions

The Hacker's Guide to Investors

Two Kinds of Judgement

Microsoft is Dead

Why to Not Not Start a Startup

Is It Worth Being Wise?

Learning from Founders

How Art Can Be Good

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

A Student's Guide to Startups

How to Present to Investors

Copy What You Like

The Island Test

The Power of the Marginal

Why Startups Condense in America

How to Be Silicon Valley

The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn

See Randomness

Are Software Patents Evil?

6,631,372

Why YC

How to Do What You Love

Good and Bad Procrastination

Web 2.0

How to Fund a Startup

The Venture Capital Squeeze

Ideas for Startups

What I Did this Summer

Inequality and Risk

After the Ladder

What Business Can Learn from Open Source

Hiring is Obsolete

The Submarine

Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas

Return of the Mac

Writing, Briefly

Undergraduation

A Unified Theory of VC Suckage

How to Start a Startup

What You'll Wish You'd Known

Made in USA

It's Charisma, Stupid

Bradley's Ghost

A Version 1.0

What the Bubble Got Right

The Age of the Essay

The Python Paradox

Great Hackers

Mind the Gap

How to Make Wealth

The Word "Hacker"

What You Can't Say

Filters that Fight Back

Hackers and Painters

If Lisp is So Great

The Hundred-Year Language

Why Nerds are Unpopular

Better Bayesian Filtering

Design and Research

A Plan for Spam

Revenge of the Nerds

Succinctness is Power

What Languages Fix

Taste for Makers

Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented

What Made Lisp Different

The Other Road Ahead

The Roots of Lisp

Five Questions about Language Design

Being Popular

Java's Cover

Beating the Averages

Lisp for Web-Based Applications

Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

Programming Bottom-Up