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Your goal shouldn't be to get into YC in a year. Your goal should be to not need YC in a year.
by auntienomen 7y ago
Your goal shouldn't be to get into YC in a year. Your goal should be to not need YC in a year.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoYC is just the gatekeeper to a network of wealth and expertise in scaling. I guess no one really needs it, in the sense that you can look up how to scale. But if you’re a VC-style company, and you’re trying to grow fast (and if you’re not you do not want to go through YC) then your business model is by definition “EAT ALL THE MARKET”. If you’re an early stage company, even if you can bite off a big chunk of market, it’s fairly certain the YC old boys network can help you bite off another big, non-overlapping chunk. Anywhere in the sub-$100M valuation range, that’s probably worth 6% just in terms of getting out in front of other growing competitors (or competitors-to-be). It doesn’t change your path, but it changes the dates on the graph. That’s assuming you are a VC-mindset company (centralize revenue streams around a few owners, grow fast, get liquid). There are other kinds of companies who “will not need YC soon” but mostly those companies shouldn’t want YC in the first place.