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Pg, are there really many ugly ducklings on demo day, despite the rigorous selection and the subsequent teaching/incubation process?
by cyphersanctus 14y ago
Pg, are there really many ugly ducklings on demo day, despite the rigorous selection and the subsequent teaching/incubation process?
- ibdknox 14y agopeople often switch ideas in the middle of YC, so there are more than a few who get up on stage with just a couple week's worth of work (if even that). By ugly ducklings in this case he means ideas that may not yet be fully fleshed out or well understood - he's making no statement about the teams themselves, which is what the selection process "solves."
- philwelch 14y agoIt's worth noting that in the original story of The Ugly Duckling, the "ugly duckling" is actually a cygnet (baby swan) that looks out of place next to the ducklings it grows up with, and that no one respects until it grows into a beautiful swan. So an ugly duckling would be an idea that will turn out very well even if it looks a little dubious at the beginning.
- 001sky 14y agolink > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_Duckling
- cyphersanctus 14y agoGood point. Thanks.