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Paul Graham on why he doesn’t like seeing college-age and younger founders

The post Paul Graham on why he doesn’t like seeing college-age and younger founders appeared first on BardTech . Yesterday, as part of some of its newest programming for startup founders, the startup incubator Y Combinator posted a new interview with its widely revered founder Paul Graham. The apparent idea was for Graham to share some deep thoughts about startups with fellow founder and current YC partner Geoff Ralston, though the two spend much of the (entertaining) interview discussing Graham’s formative career and his cofounders in his early startup Viaweb , and no wonder; one of them is famous hacker Robert Morris, who became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Much of the advice that Graham did eventually dispense to founders in the audience was interesting to us, however. Graham talked, for example, about his views on competition, which can essentially be boiled down to the idea that companies fail owing to poor execution, no...

YC-backed travel startup Duffel inks $4.7M round led by Blossom Capital, but stays coy on the details

The post YC-backed travel startup Duffel inks $4.7M round led by Blossom Capital, but stays coy on the details appeared first on BardTech . A new London-based travel-industry startup is slowly coming out of stealth mode, but although it’s releasing it’s funding round, it’s keeping the actual product close to its chest. For now. Y Combinator -backed travel startup Duffel says it is working on “a new way to book travel online, aiming at the booking experience “end to end”. A hint at what this might mean is the fact that the team contains alumni from GoCardless and is objectively very experienced in the FinTech world. So far, that’s all we’re getting. But what we do know is that Duffel is today announcing an investment round of $4.7 million. Blossom Capital is the lead investor in the round and has built a syndicate with other major investors: The Crankstart Foundation and Index Ventures. Crankstart is the charitable investment vehicle of Michael Moritz . It’s also revealed that ...