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YC is probably more suited for companies that are further along. No; we've funded groups that had been launched for a year and others that didn't even have an
by pg 17y ago
YC is probably more suited for companies that are further along.
No; we've funded groups that had been launched for a year and others that didn't even have an idea yet. Our threshold is simply whether the founders are ready to work full time on the company.
- vdibart 17y agoThanks for the clarification pg. I would think that it'd be pretty uncommon to be accepted at the pre-idea stage though, no? I mean, seed funding for literally nothing more than a good team is pretty tough to come by. For FI that's actually pretty common (at least in my experience).
- pg 17y agoIt's quite common with us. A lot of the companies we fund do something different than they applied with.