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Here's a link to the Artix website (RTM & PG's first startup):

http://web.archive.org/web/19961226071744/http://www.artix.c...

This is apparently a year into their venture, but I think they'd already abandoned the idea at this point. Notice the ad on the top for Viaweb.

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Holy shit. I had no idea that was still around. Pretty spiffy for 1995. That was before tables.

I notice our pitch to galleries

http://web.archive.org/web/19961227091110/www.artix.com/how....

has a lot in common with Viaweb's

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/bugbear/how.html

Paul, you were on the internet for 13 years before your sold your first startup? And you have five degrees? Yet you want 20-year-olds to succeed in 6 months if possible, even without a degree? That's insane (in a good way.)

We'd actually prefer if it took longer. If you succeed in 6 months, it was probably an early acquisition, and YC doesn't make very much from those.

As long as we're digging up forgotten Grahamobilia:

http://www.bugbear.com/

I came across that a couple years ago when it showed up in one of the headers of an email posted somewhere on paulgraham.com, which I can no longer find.

My favorite is Viaweb's last press release. We actually issued this, a few days before the Yahoo deal closed. It was the culmination of my press-release writing career.

http://www.bugbear.com/laspresrel.html

"Harvard University, founded in 1638, is the leading supplier of education and scholarship worldwide. Its flagship product, the Harvard University PhD degree, is the scholarship industry's leading enterprise-wide scalable information management solution. "

That's great. I hope someone published it.

http://store1.yimg.com/I/bugbear_1850_80296

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