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Re:YC NYC, September 26 by benatkin on Monday August 15, 2011 @02:56PM (#2888182)
Huh. Surprised how tiny the Wikipedia article about Y Combinator is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

I wanted to read about and see the date of a talk pg gave at Harvard before Y Combinator's first batch (not Startup School 2005; I went to that so I know a little about it).

Anyone have details? Curious.

Re:YC NYC, September 26 by paul on Monday August 15, 2011 @06:12PM (#2888938)
The edit history is interesting to review. They actively remove useful information from the article, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Y_Combinator&d...

I'd love to see someone create a non-broken wikipedia that keeps the citation rules but eliminates of the rest of the deletionist culture.

Re:YC NYC, September 26 by benatkin on Monday August 15, 2011 @06:50PM (#2889043)
Yeah, me too. A Wikipedia for articles about things that happened after the Web was invented. Imagine that!
Re:YC NYC, September 26 by simonw on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:39PM (#2888316)
Re:YC NYC, September 26 by benatkin on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:56PM (#2888391)
Awesome. This page is even better:

http://lanyrd.com/profile/paulg/past/speaking/

Much more useful than Wikipedia. For an influential speaker there ought to be a list of talks just like for a famous singer there's a list of singles.

Re:YC NYC, September 26 by pitdesi on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:09PM (#2888223)
I believe you are referring to "How to start a startup" http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html derived from a talk to the Harvard Computer Society in March 2005
Re:YC NYC, September 26 by benatkin on Monday August 15, 2011 @03:54PM (#2888384)
Thanks! That's the one. Only a few months after it, the first batch of YC started. I wonder if it will be similar for NYC. =)