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Date: Spring, 04.15.02
Activities Period (Noon-1:30pm)
Place: 50 Dodge Hall (where?)
Who: All ACM Speaker Series are open to the public unless otherwise stated
Topic: How Startups Work

Abstract: The word "startup" dates from the 1960s, but the idea is much older. Since the Industrial Revolution, technology startups have been the most straightforward way to get rich. If you think you might one day want to be involved in one, there is a lot you need to know. This talk will attempt to cover the most important 45 minutes of it, including the pros and cons of doing it at all, how to structure the company, who to hire, what to make, how to get funding, what to spend it on (and not), how to deal with competitors, and how to get bought.

Biography: Paul Graham is the designer of the Arc language. He most recently worked for Yahoo! Inc. Previously he was president of Viaweb, which became Yahoo! Store when Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo! in the summer of 1998.

Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993) and ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), now the standard college text. He has worked as a consultant to the US Department of Energy, DuPont, and Interleaf. He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

The above biography was taken from his website at http://www.paulgraham.com.
Pictures of Lecture: here