NYT on Paul Graham's YCombinator Bootcamp

prostoalex writes "The New York Times tells the story of Paul Graham's YCombinator - a venture firm that specializes in funding early stage startups that's famour for startup bootcamps conducted twice a year in Silicon Valley and over on the East Coast. YCombinator's boot camps apparently attract a lot of employees out of major software companies, who are still young and want to run a software startup."

Comments

So What's Your Personal experience, Dumbass!

[Anonymous Coward]

You forgot to tell us how you're doing! You're still losing money hand over fist and telling us how nice it is! Come back when you're either

• making money or
  
• losing money and headed for immanent failure.

Who gives a flying f*** about Paul Graham's advice unless it works. And since it was based on a sample size of 1, you make 2. Now let me know once we get about 28-30 of these and we can talk about the possibility of a statistical trend.

Sheesh! How stupid "bright" people can be!

As for

having entrepreneurism on your resume often suggests some traits that employers look for

I don't think so: most employers will look at you and say "How long will he stay before he bolts out the door again with a good idea, possibly one he got while working for us?" Most employers want docile workers, not entrepreneurs.