Are you an entrepreneur who has a good idea and is looking for an innovative way to develop the idea into a succesful company - look no further - check out Paul Graham's seed funding strategies at Y Combinator. Paul has real credibility - he co-founded Viaweb in 1995 and three years later sold it to Yahoo! for $49 million.

I first heard about Y Combinator a month ago from Mark Randall, founder of local start-up Serious Magic and again yesterday in a New York Times feature article. The Times article will no doubt flood Y Combinator's email "in basket".

Readers, do you think the Sacramento region could support a similar type of funding model?

Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive