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This makes sense, ycombinator always seemed more risk-averse and later stage anyways, from my interactions with them (I've raised from billionaires like Tim Dra
by marknadal 9y ago
This makes sense, ycombinator always seemed more risk-averse and later stage anyways, from my interactions with them (I've raised from billionaires like Tim Draper and Marc Benioff, but YC only asked us for an interview once). This isn't a bad thing, but it is sad because seed stage funding has been drying up since 2014 (when I raised for gunDB.io), there are some good TechCrunch articles on this "dry up" and I think it is gonna make the lives of a lot of developers harder. But I can blame YC, it matches their model, and they've obviously done a good job at everybody knowing their name.
- jacquesm 9y ago> ycombinator always seemed more risk-averse and later stage anyways Huh? YC is fairly universally seen as doing quite a few investments that nobody else would back and as early stage, your personal data point is an important one but you have to see it against the backdrop of all the other investments they did make.
- top256 9y agoAfaik YC if anything is that they're not very not risk averse and that's because they accept tons of companies
- tedmiston 9y agoIt'll be interesting to see what effect the seed stage investment drought has on innovation at a macro level. It seems to imply devs that would be founding will instead find themselves at bigger startups, working as "intrapreneurs", or something like that. Does this mean we're entering a (seed-stage) startup dark age now? I haven't heard anyone talk about it yet.
- wellboy 9y agoWhich investor-group is more risk-friendly than yc then or is yc the most risk-friendly investor-group that exists?