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While "As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership. With this, our strategy changed back " does give 50% of the answer as to "why", I'd be
by capableweb 7y ago
While "As we worked to establish YC China, we had a change in leadership. With this, our strategy changed back " does give 50% of the answer as to "why", I'd be great to hear from otherwise transparent YC about why the strategy changed and why it didn't work out.
- xmly 7y agoTrump
- localcrisis 7y agowould be good to hear what they plan on doing instead. YC China was a bet at doing something different. With that gone—and idk if it should have stayed or gone.. sometimes experiments fail—what is YCs plan? Invite 200, 300, 500, 20,000 companies to SF? maybe it is the best option, but also maybe not the best thing to do. YC Seems stuck in an innovator's dilemma. Reminds me of Apple under Tim Cook. Keeping a good thing going, but nothing innovative.
- writimov 7y agoYC has been trying a bunch of things new to them. Not sure how they are working out yet: * Supporting more hardware specific companies. * Supporting more biomed device tech companies. * Scaling online with startup school. * Trying to scale the number of companies who get accepted into the program. There is still a lot to figure out in the 'nurture small/young companies' space. That said, each country has its own unique challenges.
- tomnipotent 7y ago> does give 50% of the answer How could you possibly know it's only 50%? Please, HN, stop with all of the ridiculous guessing of motives with nothing to back it up.
- capableweb 7y agoDon't take it so literal. Point being, the "why" doesn't seem fully covered.
- tomnipotent 7y ago> "why" doesn't seem fully covered Again, there's no way you can know that and you're making complete assumptions.