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> mostly because they're more interesting than job ads This made me think actually, I love reading everything like this, and seeing new startups, but what is t
by codetrotter 5y ago
> mostly because they're more interesting than job ads
This made me think actually, I love reading everything like this, and seeing new startups, but what is the goal of “meet the batch”?
I always assumed it was part getting them customers, and part encouraging more people from the HN community to apply to YC. But is it also a goal to get people to work for the startups? Because that’s something I haven’t thought about in such context. But it would make sense as well I think. I am not familiar with what actually happens during YC, is it only the team that applied or do many of them start employing people while they are still in YC?
- dang 5y agoMost startups are too early-stage to be hiring during YC. If all goes well, they raise money at Demo Day and then are in a position to hire after the batch. But YC does fund some startups who are further along, and occasionally they hope to attract potential employees with their Launch HN. The goal of "Meet the Batch" is simply to distribute HN-launchiness to more startups than we can do with standalone threads. It will of course be more diluted by being spread further (I think Jerry Weinberg used to call that the Law of Peanut Butter), but hopefully still useful, and the startups retain their chance to do a standalone Launch HN in the future. As for why startups launch on HN at all, I suppose it's to attract (1) customers and (2) investors—hopefully in that order—in addition to the hiring case just mentioned.