Overview of Paul Graham's Future of Web Apps (FOWA) session

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They are probably incomplete and may contain mistakes, though I do my best to be accurate. Chances are I'll be adding links to extra material and photos later on, so don't hesitate to come back and check.

steph-note: missed the beginning, very incomplete...

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> Y Combinator is going to open source their angel money paperwork, to make it easier for "rich hackers" to invest.

Wow, that would be a great help to a lot of people. Any thoughts on when this will occur?

Within the next month, I hope.

Is this going to be limited to standard paperwork for investments, or are you going to release standard paperwork for other things as well (e.g., startup incorporation, NDAs, etc.)?

Would be nice if I could pay $395 for a startup legal kit that I knew other startups actually used. Put paperwork for incorporation, funding, NDAs, employee ownership stuff, etc. Then when I wanted to hire someone and give him 6% of the company, I could just do it, without a bunch of lawyers.

Just a thought if you wanted to make some money whether we succeed or not.

I am definitely interested in following this link - but it seems to be completely broken.

Its up on PGs site: http://paulgraham.com/webstartups.html

Thank goodness he didn't mention Plato.

It was a joke, people.

Was this talk filmed by chance?

An audio recording is supposed to be released at the end of the conference. I'm not sure if it was filmed, but the essay on PGs site is probably almost word for word. The nice thing about the recording is hopefully it will include the comment and answer section which I heard was good.

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