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On Being a (proud) Salesperson for Georgette Packaging (YC W16)(linkedin.com)
1 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
Can you provide a link to the sketch or anything showing what you've done so far?
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by kevin 11y ago
Always betting on the founders. Ideas sometimes change. Markets sometimes change. What gets people tripped up is that you sometimes judge a founder indirectly by seeing how they communicate an idea, looking at their ability to deliver, and
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by kevin 11y ago
No rule against it. If you're up for it, I don't see why not.
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by kevin 11y ago
I know you're ribbing us, but paying for a Pinboard account is like buying shares in Berkshire Hathaway. It's for true believers. I think there's always opportunity in concentrations of users like that. Of all the partners at
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by kevin 11y ago
Honestly, we don't really know. We have very few hypotheses around this idea. We're just insanely curious to see what will happen. As far as the disadvantage you mention, that happens when you launch. That happens when you start g
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by kevin 11y ago
Don't know yet. Let's see what happens here. Also, Fellowship actually runs three times a year, so the next potential cycle is in the fall.
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by kevin 11y ago
Nah. A lot of teams don't know about HN before they apply to YC. Many make it into the batch and are good.
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by kevin 11y ago
One of the reasons we're trying this is to question a lot of our own assumptions about the best way to find a great startup. Best practices will probably arise over time on how to best apply through HN, but I'd rather we let ourse
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by kevin 11y ago
You look for grit. What evidence can you find that shows they don't just give up when things get hard? Thing is we don't find out usually until after we invest what the real problems are...so we optimize for people we want to spen
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by kevin 11y ago
Hey everyone! I manage and run the Fellowship program at YC. I just want to build on top of what Dan wrote about being nice. We’re not asking you to do this because we think it’s good manners. We actually believe it’s the right way to think
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Supercharged Photosynthesis(technologyreview.com)
3 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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One Startup’s Journey Through Y Combinator or There and Back Again(medium.com)
51 points by kevin 11y ago|2 comments
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Cover (YC W16) Helps You Insure Anything with the Snap of a Photo(blog.ycombinator.com)
41 points by kevin 11y ago|20 comments
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How to Deploy Software(zachholman.com)
1 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
Jared will also be doing open office hours on Slack from 2-4pm PT on Friday (Feb 26). If you'd like help with your startup, but want your questions answered in a private setting, sign up here by end of day on Feb 23: https:/&#x2F
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Tell HN: HN and Slack Office Hours with YC Partners this Friday
42 points by kevin 11y ago|7 comments
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Why Front Moved Its Entire Team from Europe to the U.S(themacro.com)
4 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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Regular expression to match a chemical element(johndcook.com)
5 points by kevin 11y ago|1 comments
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Scientists have found a way to help you learn new skills twice as fast(sciencealert.com)
1 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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You can’t do both(erickarjaluoto.com)
1 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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The Illusion of Competence(randsinrepose.com)
3 points by kevin 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevin 11y ago
We're accepting applications from international teams and do not require incorporation. In the second batch, we have teams participating from the UK, Kenya, India, Ghana and Malaysia.
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by kevin 11y ago
The fellowship program is currently not available to nonprofits at this time.
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by kevin 11y ago
We're working to make the Fellowship program one that can stand on its own. It is not designed to be a feeder into YC. Many teams may decide to apply and it may make sense, but I will always advise companies to work to make their compa
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by kevin 11y ago
This is not something we actively try to predict, even with the Core program. Airbnb, for instance, would have been missed if we thought like this. As ever, we primarily optimize for funding great founders.
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by kevin 11y ago
It's not definitively decided, but the third batch will probably start in July.
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by kevin 11y ago
Like the core program we don't really have targets. We're still playing it by ear.
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by kevin 11y ago
The money is effectively free for founders unless their company does incredibly well. Also, at 1.5% equity and no effective shares till that valuation threshold, we don't have enough equity to force companies to do anything they don&#x
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by kevin 11y ago
It's not ideal and it won't be as good as in person office hours, but we think there's value even in this format. I believe there was some back and forth in some of the threads the last time we did it.

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