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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Yeah, that's a common feature request. For now, if you send an email to startupschool@ycombinator.com we can clear those out manually.
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Totally. We're making some early moves in this direction with a private forum channel for companies that self-identify as growth stage, but we'd like to take this a lot further.
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
We aren't currently evaluating companies for grants, but are likely to restart a version of that program later in the year. If and when we do, founders that participate in the program starting now will be eligible!
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Yes, we want to make accountability MUCH better, particularly for solo founders who can have a harder time staying motivated without someone else to bounce things off of. Don't have changes related to that in the current relaunch yet,
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Yes, we've reworked the matching algorithm! You can see the criteria we use for forming matches at the bottom of the weekly update when you sign up. That said, it still isn't perfect and we have more work planned in that area. We
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Initial expectations: we expected Startup School to be very popular with founders, and in the long term also hopefully encourage more founders to apply to YC's core program. It modestly exceeded our expectations on the former (we'
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Hey folks, really excited about this change. I’ve been wanting to make Startup School a continuous program for years, but it took a while to get all the right pieces in place. Here to answer any questions you may have!
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YC's Startup School Relaunching as Continuous Program(blog.ycombinator.com)
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by kcorbitt 6y ago
Hey, I'm one of the folks at YC working on Startup School. I wouldn't characterize our advice this way. It's important that an MVP actually solves a problem that a user has, although it's fine for it to require some manu
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Tangentially, one positive side-effect of the pandemic lockdown I've seen is a dramatic drop in the quantity of spam in my physical mailbox. I generally get 5-20 pieces of junk mail a week, but in the 3.5 weeks that the Bay Area has be
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
The reason most people invest money in public companies is because they expect to get money back at some point. Otherwise, why invest at all? There are two primary ways that companies can return money to shareholders: dividends and stock bu
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I worked as a software engineer in London for about a year in 2015. Socially, felt about equivalent to an IT specialist in the USA. Someone who has a specialized skill but not considered a true white-collar professional. Huge contrast with
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Y Combinator is hiring an engineer to help us scale Startup School(jobs.lever.co)
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Once a company gets past ~20 employees the CEO can't evaluate employee competence directly and has to rely on proxies. In sufficiently large companies, gaming these proxies gets you promoted faster than doing great work. This is one re
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Hey, I'm the engineer/PM for SUS! A tool to host/announce local meetups is on our shortlist of features to build. You can kind of approximate it with the software right now (the directory lets you filter for nearby companies
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Super excited to be running this again! One of our learnings from last year's Startup School was that founders who signed up for our waitlist months ahead of time were unlikely to still be working on their startup once the course began
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Y Combinator | Product Engineer, Startup School | SF, CA | Full-time | On-site | https://jobs.lever.co/ycombinator/ef091f3d-df02-433c-a6c0-7b... Y Combinator started Startup School two years ago as a way to help as man
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
That Libre Mercado story is from 2015, when the line was still incomplete. It says "the final costs may reach $16.6B", but doesn't mention how much has already been spent or how realistic that upper-bound estimate was. The OP
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I am not an IP lawyer, but I'm not sure that you can monetize this project either the way it's currently set up? Since you're accepting third-party pull requests without requiring a copyright assignment or more permissive l
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
> So out of hundreds you interviewed, it doesn’t appear that anyone over 30 was hired. What did the age breakdown look like? Ageism does exist in tech. Not affiliated with the company in the article, but this isn't necessarily a sym
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I lived in Palma de Mallorca for 6 months. An enchanting place - my wife and I dream of moving back to the island someday and making a home in one of the small, old and hauntingly beautiful towns like Alcudia or Soller.
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I'm actually not sure how much talent Facebook could pick up locally by just opening the floodgates, which is what I believe you're advocating? I'm a former Facebook intern and Google employee, and don't plan on returnin
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Software engineer salaries are fairly comparable between NYC and the Bay Area, although most quantitative sources I've seen have NYC coming in slightly lower. But NYC could have a large number of engineers who (1) are willing to work f
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Facebook already pays its median employee $240k ( https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Yes-me... ). You can assume that at those salaries, they've already hired a large percentage of the B
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Thanks, fixed! This was actually due to an overzealous CSS optimizer, and the bug hit all browsers, not just Firefox. :)
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Agreed! Also worth noting that Startup School is very startup-like itself, and we're constantly trying to provide more value. As an example, we're moving to more dynamic grouping so you won't get placed for video calls with f
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I bike daily in San Francisco and that hasn't been my experience. My mental heuristics for risk to injury for me are, from least to most dangerous: - City buses. Slow and predictable. - Normal passenger vehicles. - Lyft/Uber. Will
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
I regularly ride my e-bike in SF but have also dabbled with the rental scooters. I have a hard time understanding the scooters' popularity, compared to a rentable e-bike like the Jump or Lime bikes. In my experience e-bikes have the ad
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
Good, fresh bread can be produced cheaply. When I lived in Spain I could buy a large, fresh, delicious baguette on almost any street corner for about $0.55. The problem is that after about 24 hours it gets hard and after 48 it's basica
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by kcorbitt 7y ago
We spent $33k on rent and utilities! And that's a deal, compared to what many of our neighbors are paying. We live near SF to keep my commute into the city manageable, and there simply isn't cheap housing to be had in the area.

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