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If Y Combinator put ads on HN they can fund 8-10 more startups every year
- pg 16y agoMoney is not the limit now.
- keefe 16y agoif it's not money, is it time or talent?
- photon_off 16y agoThe limit is probably the amount of "fund-worthy" founders that exist (and apply) at any given time. If it's not that, then YCombinator batches are kept intentionally small. I would imagine so that there's a higher mentor:founder ratio, and so that all the founders form a tighter-knit group. If the groups are small enough so that everybody knows everybody, there's the "esprit de corps" that binds all together in the common goal of success. You don't want to show up to the Tuesday dinner and report no progress.
- m4wk3r 16y agohire.
- jacquesm 16y agoYcombinators limiting factor is not the amount of money but the amount of time they have to spend.
- Asa-Nisse 16y agoIf they put ads on the site and bought adwords for the earned income NH would become the first economical singularity.
- ax0n 16y agoAssuming a bunch of us didn't ditch them for the RSS feed after the annoying ads showed up.
- myffical 16y agoGiven the nature of this community, if HN runs ads, I'd expect to see links to user-made alternate front-ends and ad-blocking extensions, right on the same page.
- rdl 16y agoI would actually be curious to see ads from any advertiser specifically targeting the hn community. I think it's a bad idea to run on the main site, but it would be neat to have an "ads" link at the top which goes to a page of ads, maybe tailored for the individual, as an hn-user. If they did this, hn should probably just donate the revenue to charity (like AVC does); startup-outreach-in-public-schools would be a great charity, and ultimately beneficial to yc. (pay travel expenses to have founders of startups speak at 6-12th grade schools)
- code_duck 16y agoWhat kind of silly logic is this?