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Correction: 22. The founder I thought was from Finland is actually from Slovenia.

by pg 13y ago

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selmnoo 13y ago
In the past you've said that investors need to be able to see startup founders face to face (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850199), so how will arrangements work out with this batch? Are the founders going to be traveling back and forth to see you guys? Are you going to encourage them to try to relocate here? (but obviously that'll be difficult, you're one of the voices in the FWD.us initiative so you know that, will you encourage them to try to relocate in spite of that?).
- pg 13y ago
  We ask all the startups we fund to come to SV Jan through March. Whether they stay afterward depends on whether they want to, and whether the government lets them. Some are making things for their local market (e.g. Glio, in the last batch), and for those it makes sense to go back to their home countries afterward even if they can get US visas.
selmnoo 13y ago
Also, can you please say 22 out of how many? (that is, what is the total number of accepted startups?) Additionally: 22 seems like a big number. Almost as if this time around the YC partners sat together and said "hey, let's try to get a lot of overseas startups this time around and see what happens". I notice that there have been "themes" in different seasons of YC... for example, in one of the previous seasons, you said that when reviewing applications you'd give high preference to startups doing things with electronics, robots, etc. - so, indeed this really seems like a sort of an experiment as if you're curious to see and learn how startups from abroad do things. Two questions in line of this: 1) What are you hoping to learn from this class? 2) What are you expecting to see (any hypotheses?)?
- rdl 13y ago
  It's on the order of 100 founders, I'm pretty sure (within 50%). 50-60 companies. The chances it would vary greatly from previous batches absent any other announcement are pretty low.
- pg 13y ago
  Around 75, including the nonprofits. We're never sure of the exact number at this stage, because some we accept at interviews explode on the starting line, and we sometimes accept late applications. It wasn't any kind of deliberate choice by us. I was surprised how many seemed to be from other countries this batch. I would guess it's because we're getting more applications from overseas.
  - selmnoo 13y ago
    Ahh, so these startups are not totally accepted, they're just the ones to get through the first part of the process. Sorry I misunderstood. Thanks for answering.
    - pg 13y ago
      They're totally accepted.
pg 13y ago
Another correction: I should have said za instead of sa.

Correction: 22. The founder I thought was from Finland is actually from Slovenia.

by pg 13y ago

Correction: 22. The founder I thought was from Finland is actually from Slovenia.

deleted 13y ago

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selmnoo 13y ago

In the past you've said that investors need to be able to see startup founders face to face (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850199), so how will arrangements work out with this batch? Are the founders going to be traveling back and forth to see you guys? Are you going to encourage them to try to relocate here? (but obviously that'll be difficult, you're one of the voices in the FWD.us initiative so you know that, will you encourage them to try to relocate in spite of that?).

pg 13y ago
We ask all the startups we fund to come to SV Jan through March. Whether they stay afterward depends on whether they want to, and whether the government lets them. Some are making things for their local market (e.g. Glio, in the last batch), and for those it makes sense to go back to their home countries afterward even if they can get US visas.

selmnoo 13y ago

Also, can you please say 22 out of how many? (that is, what is the total number of accepted startups?) Additionally: 22 seems like a big number. Almost as if this time around the YC partners sat together and said "hey, let's try to get a lot of overseas startups this time around and see what happens". I notice that there have been "themes" in different seasons of YC... for example, in one of the previous seasons, you said that when reviewing applications you'd give high preference to startups doing things with electronics, robots, etc. - so, indeed this really seems like a sort of an experiment as if you're curious to see and learn how startups from abroad do things. Two questions in line of this: 1) What are you hoping to learn from this class? 2) What are you expecting to see (any hypotheses?)?

rdl 13y ago
It's on the order of 100 founders, I'm pretty sure (within 50%). 50-60 companies. The chances it would vary greatly from previous batches absent any other announcement are pretty low.
pg 13y ago
Around 75, including the nonprofits. We're never sure of the exact number at this stage, because some we accept at interviews explode on the starting line, and we sometimes accept late applications. It wasn't any kind of deliberate choice by us. I was surprised how many seemed to be from other countries this batch. I would guess it's because we're getting more applications from overseas.
- selmnoo 13y ago
  Ahh, so these startups are not totally accepted, they're just the ones to get through the first part of the process. Sorry I misunderstood. Thanks for answering.
  - pg 13y ago
    They're totally accepted.

pg 13y ago

Another correction: I should have said za instead of sa.