Paul Graham founded Viaweb back in the mid-90’s. Viaweb developed online store creation software that Yahoo acquired in 1998 and made into Yahoo Stores. Paul apparently became very rich from that and is now doing whatever he wants.

One of the things he wants to do is help others do what he did. That is, start a successful company. Paul is part of a group that is running a Summer Founders Program. If you’re accepted, you get to move to Cambridge for the summer and get a stipend for starting and running your own company. It beats the heck out of summer job. I wish there was something like this when I was a student!