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To be fair, this letter was targeted at companies in the current YC batch. They've already explicitly opted-in to going the venture route, at least in some capa
by _sentient 11y ago
To be fair, this letter was targeted at companies in the current YC batch. They've already explicitly opted-in to going the venture route, at least in some capacity.
Bootstrapped businesses can be awesome; I've built a couple myself. But the time to be asking these sorts of existential questions would be before you take VC money, not after.
- rcarrigan87 11y agoFor a group that focuses primarily on young, inexperienced founders and is so founder focused, I think it would be reasonable to expect them to allow for founders to take the exit ramp if they decided the VC route didn't make sense for their business based on their YC experience.