The pace of startups popping up seems matched only by the emergence of new "incubators," or "accelerators," whichever word you chose to describe these startup boot camps that have cropped up across the country.
And Paul Graham, the man behind the grandaddy of them all, Y Combinator, barely pays attention to them. What he is convinced of, though, is that many will die, and that they're formed for the wrong reason.
"People are doing it because it's the cool thing to do," Graham told me during a break at Y Combinator's Demo Day at the Computer History Museum here. "It's just the fashion, like what kind of clothes to wear."
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