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by pg 13y ago
We thought Twitter had the potential to be an important platform. This was before the company changed its attitude to third parties building things on top of it.
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by pg 13y ago
We'll probably treat single founders the same as we usually do. We don't automatically reject single founders, but we have a higher threshold for them.
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by pg 13y ago
We didn't accept many no-idea applications, and on average those groups have done worse than regular applications.
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by pg 13y ago
They get it as soon as they finish the paperwork. It's automatic if companies incorporate in the US. (I believe there may have been some companies that chose to remain Canadian and thus didn't take the YCVC money, but I'm n
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by pg 13y ago
There is no financial benefit to us. And incidentally a lot of venture capitalists do give a lot of money to nonprofits. E.g. http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/04/25/andreessen-horowit...
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by pg 13y ago
Not with the same HN account, but if you have two founders you could submit separate applications under each account.
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by pg 13y ago
One reason we didn't worry about this was that Watsi showed us that there is at least a subset of nonprofits whose founders are willing to work for very little early on. Maybe this will even turn out to be a good filter. But whether
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by pg 13y ago
We don't know yet what will turn out to be the most important questions for nonprofits, so we just kept the subset of questions that seemed to apply to any project whether for profit or not.
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by pg 13y ago
No, that's been there for years, maybe since the beginning. We're looking for people who are not merely good at building things, but who can decide what to build.
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by pg 13y ago
Oops, fixed.
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YC Will Now Fund Nonprofits Too(ycombinator.com)
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Applications open Winter 2014 Funding(ycombinator.com)
135 points by pg 13y ago|35 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Depends how good you are. If you're very good, you have better expected value working for yourself than averaging your work together with a bunch of other people. If not you're better off working for someone else. (You're m
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by pg 13y ago
That would be a good middle ground. You'd learn a lot more about how startups operate in a startup than in a big company. If you join early enough your experience will be close to that of a founder.
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by pg 13y ago
I used to advise people to go work for an existing company for a few years before trying to start their own, but I now think that was bad advice. It's true that you learn things working for a big company, but you learn more, faster, s
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by pg 13y ago
There's a reason for this pattern. When I complained to a friend at Google about the new GMail compose, he said that what was driving it was that Larry wanted a beautiful, consistent look throughout all Google's products. That s
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by pg 13y ago
It asks what's the coolest thing you've built.
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by pg 13y ago
Because we have higher standards for achievement for a 30 year old than a 20 year old.
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by pg 13y ago
Notice that this year we've expanded the intended audience from hackers to include designers and engineers as well.
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Applications open for Startup School(startupschool.org)
136 points by pg 13y ago|65 comments
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by pg 13y ago
FWIW, as far as we can tell this account was part of a long-running Microsoft astroturfing campaign. You can never be 100% sure of these things, but astroturfers, like spammers, leave trails they don't realize they're leaving.
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by pg 13y ago
The question of the degree to which enclosure was responsible for the supply of factory workers is one people have debated for a century. The idea that it was was as you can imagine very popular with Marxist historians. Which doesn't
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by pg 13y ago
Statistics about how much time medieval peasants spent working can be misleading, because a lot of what they spent their time on when they weren't doing fieldwork was still work, e.g. tending their own gardens, making implements and fu
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by pg 13y ago
"Whether the measures are effective is a matter of debate." Less so after this prosecution. It would be pretty stupid for the government to send undercover agents after him if his techniques didn't work. He'd be helpi
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Dean Karnazes: the man who can run for ever(theguardian.com)
76 points by pg 13y ago|52 comments
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by pg 13y ago
We funded one: http://verbling.com .
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by pg 13y ago
I talked about this on another thread, but by strong accent I mean so strong that people have a hard time understanding you. It's not a problem if founders have accents as strong as, say, the Collison brothers'.
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by pg 13y ago
It's not our top criterion. It's just one that I'm willing to talk about publicly, because there's no way to fake it. We're not against funding people from outside the US, and we fund a lot of them. But 564 startu
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by pg 13y ago
That's actually a very interesting question. I've noticed for a while that the people who are best at giving advice to startups tend to be funny. It's not a job where it would be good to be the humorless variety of smart.
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by pg 13y ago
We didn't have this type of insurance at YC but now we're going to get it. So thanks for the tip Jason.

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