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YC is still YC. Investor's come to YC to win, and win big. They want to see companies shooting for the moon, not worried about profitability 12 weeks in.

• jblock 11y ago
  Can't you do both?
  • lmeyerov 11y ago
    12 weeks in validates a market.. and proves you're easily displaced
    • abalashov 11y ago
      May not matter if there's cash to make off with. Plenty of folks don't care about long-haul world domination or owning a market; if being a Significant Player for 3 years will earn them enough to retire, why not?
      • lmeyerov 11y ago
        That's fine for you and many others. However, it's an anti-pitch for a YC company: demo day is really auction day. They're selling a chunk of themselves to an institutional investor sifting for disproportionate returns.
    • andy_ppp 11y ago
      Yeah but it hardly ever happens does it; I'd love to get 12 solid weeks to show what I can do but I'm stuck trying to build and launch something quite complex in my spare time, it's really difficult so we've taken ourselves to Lanzarote for a full week developing, which we are half way through. You quickly realise that a few issues and a few nights out and your week is over :-/