April 2 is a significant date for many early-stage entrepreneurs as this is the deadline for applying to Paul Graham’s Y Combinator this summer. If you don’t know about Y Combinator, then I encourage you to read up on it as they are one of the few groups doing anything remotely interesting as it relates to very early-stage investment in startups (with an emphasis on software startups).
Startups, Y Combinator Style
In the last week I’ve had the chance to play with a few new services that have begun to appear: