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On that last point, YC has no shortage of applicants. I'm not sure that I'd worry about spreading the word if I were them either.
by iamwil 17y ago
On that last point, YC has no shortage of applicants. I'm not sure that I'd worry about spreading the word if I were them either.
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- webwright 17y agoReally? Then I don't think you'd be running it very effectively. That's like Apple saying, "we're selling tons of iPhones. Let's stop marketing them." Or a better analogy is Harvard saying, "we have a lot of applicants this season-- let's not market or recruit". If Harvard said that, they'd slowly watch the quality and quantity of their applicant pool drift towards the other ivy-league schools that WERE marketing. YC has a HUGE marketing advantage in PG (and his amazing and linkworthy essays), Jessica (and her amazing book) and the success of the portfolio. But it's not an unassailable position. edit: Duh-- news.yc is another incredible marketing asset that YC has!
- iamwil 17y agoI'm not saying don't market at all. Just perhaps there's not a need to market in the way that you mentioned in the previous post about portfolio pages, given pg & co can only look after so many startups per batch. But apparently not, since pg replied saying he was working on a portfolio page and jl is working on blog posts. I concede.