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Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
What are the chances that yc to accept a startup which is in competition with a startup already accepted in a previous yc cycle? I mean, this could be a black ball, isnt'it?
- benologist 14y agoYC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens. There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor and DotCloud as PaaS's, etcetera. There's a very, very long list of companies here that have lots more examples: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies.php http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies.php
- datarake 14y agothank you. In this case, maybe to compete an existing startup could be even better :))
- datarake 14y agobut... what about the component of fear described in this article? http://paulgraham.com/growth.html http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
- benologist 14y agoYC is at the beginning or early stage of most startups, acquisition is usually years later and there's a million things that stop a startup reaching that point. Just worry about your startup not someone else's.