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What does YC bring to tech heavy startups except connections to funding ? because most of the risk there is technology risk , not market risk, and YC is no tech
by pinkyand 12y ago
What does YC bring to tech heavy startups except connections to funding ? because most of the risk there is technology risk , not market risk, and YC is no tech expert at those subjects.
- boomzilla 12y agoConnections to funding and talents. It's not easy to find a group of tens of thousand engineers, and which has very high opinion of YC.
- jonnathanson 12y agoThere is plenty of technology risk and market risk in hard-tech companies. A business with R&D cycles, long lead times, and heavy capex requirements is going to face a substantial amount of both types of risk.