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Actually it's really not. At justin.tv we already have a list as long as my arm of great ideas that we don't have time to implement. Seeing a few more great i

Actually it's really not. At justin.tv we already have a list as long as my arm of great ideas that we don't have time to implement. Seeing a few more great ideas from a potential competitor wouldn't make much difference to us in my opinion.

vaksel 17y ago
that's probably true, hell Yahoo told Google to go screw themselves when they offered to sell them their tech. But the things asked in the application make you get pretty specific. Most people have trouble doing that for investors, let alone potential competitors. + it's not like they were told this before hand. They wrote the applications, thinking that pg and his team would review them.
- abstractbill 17y ago
  Most people have trouble doing that for investors, let alone potential competitors. That's because most people don't understand just how unimportant ideas are. Seriously, even if pg & co decided that the next application process would be completely public, I still wouldn't consider it a big deal. Anyone can say "I have an idea, I'm going to build X". Fewer can actually do it. Fewer still have the drive (masochism?) to keep trying and trying to get people to actually use it for months and months when it looks like nobody cares at all.
- jwhitlark 17y ago
  pg and his team ARE going to review them. They state elsewhere that they are looking for a second set of eyes to make sure they don't miss things, (both for good and bad). Remember, by applying, you are saying you trust the judgment of the YC team. If you don't trust their judgment, including when/when not to delegate, you are probably applying for the wrong reasons. I mean, jeeze, you're asking them for money. They have been upfront about the change in the process, gave everyone a way to back out, said they'll be reading all applications themselves anyway... If you can't deal with changing and uncomfortable circumstances, why are you thinking about a startup in the first place? (This is not just to the parent post, it is directed at the critics in this thread in general).
notauser 17y ago
Seconded. I have done resource allocation for companies from 1 employee to 100k employees and the one common factor is that there is always too much to do and too few people to do it.
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vaksel 17y ago

that's probably true, hell Yahoo told Google to go screw themselves when they offered to sell them their tech. But the things asked in the application make you get pretty specific. Most people have trouble doing that for investors, let alone potential competitors. + it's not like they were told this before hand. They wrote the applications, thinking that pg and his team would review them.

abstractbill 17y ago
Most people have trouble doing that for investors, let alone potential competitors. That's because most people don't understand just how unimportant ideas are. Seriously, even if pg & co decided that the next application process would be completely public, I still wouldn't consider it a big deal. Anyone can say "I have an idea, I'm going to build X". Fewer can actually do it. Fewer still have the drive (masochism?) to keep trying and trying to get people to actually use it for months and months when it looks like nobody cares at all.
jwhitlark 17y ago
pg and his team ARE going to review them. They state elsewhere that they are looking for a second set of eyes to make sure they don't miss things, (both for good and bad). Remember, by applying, you are saying you trust the judgment of the YC team. If you don't trust their judgment, including when/when not to delegate, you are probably applying for the wrong reasons. I mean, jeeze, you're asking them for money. They have been upfront about the change in the process, gave everyone a way to back out, said they'll be reading all applications themselves anyway... If you can't deal with changing and uncomfortable circumstances, why are you thinking about a startup in the first place? (This is not just to the parent post, it is directed at the critics in this thread in general).

notauser 17y ago

Seconded. I have done resource allocation for companies from 1 employee to 100k employees and the one common factor is that there is always too much to do and too few people to do it.

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