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In general, the more money that a company has raised and the longer it's been around, the higher our expectations are. There are of course important exceptions
by sama 11y ago
In general, the more money that a company has raised and the longer it's been around, the higher our expectations are. There are of course important exceptions to this, but we do look for evidence that founders can get things done.
- FreedomToCreate 11y agoWhat about companies that went through a specific type of accelerator (ex. hardware, or life science focused) and now wants to accelerate there business growth. How are these types of accelerators viewed by YC?
- spdionis 11y agoIt's always weird when people ask this kind of question. Isn't the answer obvious?
- anon1385 11y agoNo? I mean I would have thought that the answer to the question "Does YC consciously avoid founders with foreign sounding accents" was obvious ("of course not"). But it turns out it wasn't.
- tedmiston 11y agoThe startup I work for went through a niche IoT accelerator late in our lifecycle (post Series A.). No, not necessarily. Every startup in the batch had a unique end goal, but they're not necessarily traction in the way YC appears to view it. Sometimes the end goal is a pre-traction milestone, like shipping our first set of physical chips. In this sense, it's a blurred line between pre-accelerators and early-stage accelerators Personally, I'd contend that YC today does not really like funding "very early-stage companies". Or at least, the definition of very early stage has been inflated from 2005 to now. The bar has been raised too high [1]; there are too many good applicants with significant product and/or traction already. 1: https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/ https://www.ycombinator.com/whynot/