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Anyone know if YC is doing traditional companies? i.e. advertising and real-estate. Don't need the money but could really use the "blessing". They have some of
by mahmud 17y ago
Anyone know if YC is doing traditional companies? i.e. advertising and real-estate.
Don't need the money but could really use the "blessing". They have some of the most enviable media contacts in the industry right now.
- eru 17y agoThey said they need to understand what you are doing.
- mahmud 17y agoWell, we got into these businesses from meeting industry insiders and specialists. You sit down with people, chat, and find out business opportunities. Just today we evaluated festival, trade show and expo opportunities; took me about 10 hours to study the industry and see potential, I am still evaluating it, but there is no reason for YC not to understand it fully. Seems like the whole startup scene is focused on web-based tools and utilities, while we're focused in real-world businesses.
- eru 17y agoI find real-world business refreshing (compared to the reality bubble of web-startups-only). I'd say, go ahead apply. You will at least get noticed easier than the next twitter clone. By the way, I am also interested in operations research. (I write my thesis about the very real-world problem of scheduling at Deutsche Bahn.)
- aberman 17y agoWhat you describe sounds more like a small business than a startup. YC only funds startups (i.e. scalable and disruptive). The two are not synonymous. YC primarily funds software and web-based companies because you can create a scalable and disruptive web-based company on $20k.
- eru 17y agoI wonder where all those recent down-voters come from. It used to be more friendly around here. When only trolls got voted down to 0 or less.
- dannyr 17y agoHow about just hire a PR firm? Yeah you get good media contacts with YC but that only takes you so far. What's good is the community of founders who have gone thru YC.
- pg 17y agoWe'll fund anything that scales like a startup. We had a very promising startup doing real estate two cycles ago, but they fell apart due to disputes between the founders. I still think it was a great idea.
- theli0nheart 17y agoWhat company was this? edit: why am I getting downvoted?
- ghshephard 17y agoFrom: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "
- theli0nheart 17y agoSure, I'll keep that in mind. One point I'd like to make though is that it's less about the karma itself than it is about the reason that people don't like the question. I could understand why if I was trolling, insulting, etc. Honestly, I don't care if my karma goes to negative infinity, unless that would automatically ban my account, or something to that effect.
- ghshephard 17y agoMy first year on YC was depressing, as comments that I put a lot of work, energy, effort and thought into would sometimes be downmodded into oblivion. I would write an expose on Hiring practices we used to have at Netscape, detailing precisely what hiring managers though, and how - and people would downmod me like there was tomorrow. Over time, I realized, that sometimes it's just a popularity contest. Your comments, even if well meant, may just not be in agreement with somebody elses. I just learned to deal with it - over time you get a sense for the Ebb and Flow - and can learn quite a bit about the community. Don't always consider a downmod to be negative - sometimes it's just a reflection of what other people think - not a reflection of your comments value.