I’m at Logan Airport, coming back from the presentation day for the Summer Founders Program at Y Combinator. I’m not sure whether the companies have been announced as funded by the program, other than Reddit and the startup Aaron is developing, so I won’t talk about the specifics yet.
But what I will say is, what a great idea and a great program. At least half of the startups in the program are seriously cool and all of them made a ton of progress on very little money and in very little time. Paul Graham and his partners clearly have good selectors for finding talented, motivated people, and they’re going after a part of the startup market very badly served by other funders. I’ll be really interested to see what happens with these companies next. Most of them need some kind of refinement or help, but several are already well past the hardest part: starting out in the right direction.