Paul Graham’s Fundraising Survival Guide

Written on August 12, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer

Paul Graham, mostly known for co-founding Viaweb back in the nineties and his current role as high-profile partner of seed funding house Y Combinator, penned an awesome essay titled the ‘Fundraising Survival Guide‘ which I think is an absolute must-read for anyone involved with startups or venture capital.

In fact, even the discussion over on Hacker News about the content of the essay is worth your time.

Now go read or bookmark for later!

I hope you like that post!

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Paul Graham, Ycombinator

About the author: Robin Wauters is a Belgium-based social media consultant, startup advisor, blogger, entrepreneur, Twitter fanatic, conference organizer and allround web addict. Between trying out just about every new web application that gets in his sight, he advises local startups like ContactOffice, Oxynade and Yuntaa. And when he's not busy trying to keep tabs with what's going on in the virtualization & cloud computing industry as managing editor of Virtualization.com, he's probably working on the organization of Plugg, an annual celebration of European web entrepreneurship.

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One comment to “Paul Graham’s Fundraising Survival Guide”

By Şekip Can Gökalp on Aug 13, 2008

Thank you for sharing. =) Great article.

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