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by pg 13y ago
Or startups could just hire him as their lawyer. Parse did and they are happy customers.
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by pg 13y ago
That's per batch. 5 days x 3 interview tracks x 17 slots per day. Which is why we're usually a bit tired by the end of interviews.
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by pg 13y ago
Ok.
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by pg 13y ago
Of course!
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by pg 13y ago
It depends which alumni. A handful are good judges of startups. Most just loyally recommend their friends. Off the top of my head, I'd guess alumni recommendations are a factor in maybe 5-10 of the 255 groups we invite to interviews.
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by pg 13y ago
I should know better than to make jokes that align with people's existing fears. Once we funded someone who reminded me of Zuckerberg, and even then it was far from the only reason. And the fact that the YC partners have taunted me abou
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by pg 13y ago
It's not uncommon for services that are growing fast to be overloaded. Twitter is a famous recent example. Empirically it seems to be a predictor of success. Off the top of my head, I can only think of one startup (Friendster) that died
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Silicon Valley And The Reinvention Of Food(techcrunch.com)
8 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
We've had a bunch of reports of problems logging in. We're investigating.
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by pg 13y ago
Investors have won? What? Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.
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by pg 13y ago
Because whenever a reporter asks investors at Demo Day for a comment, and they ask themselves "what could I say that would be in my interest to have reprinted?" the obvious choice is "prices are coming down." And it's not true, incidentally
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by pg 13y ago
"Given that the size of batches have gone up, I do believe that number of sentences exchanged with PG/partners per startup must have gone down." I didn't read this whole comment, but that part at least is false, because we've hired new part
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Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
186 points by pg 13y ago|275 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, I already have one.
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by pg 13y ago
I don't have one now but I may buy one.
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by pg 13y ago
I'll probably never buy one.
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by pg 13y ago
YC itself is more about advice than investment. But in answer to your question, no, except for one startup from Imagine K12.
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by pg 13y ago
I just restarted the server. I do it every week or so.
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by pg 13y ago
I don't think it's so much an agenda that he's pushing as a single study that he keeps recycling.
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by pg 13y ago
VC's can take much bigger advantage of a 25 year old than a 50 year old This is a persistent myth, but if you examine the math it doesn't work out. A VC firm could improve their returns by at most 2x or 3x by extracting really good terms
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by pg 13y ago
Not just Brian. Brian and Joe Gebbia both flew to NYC every week.
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by pg 13y ago
Far from it. Uber is a remarkably professionally run company that has transformed transportation in the US cities where it operates. I'm surprised (or more precisely, dismayed) that a comment with such comically excessive language received
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by pg 13y ago
But they certainly weren't setting the world on fire. Actually their growth was very good, among the steepest of all the 500 or so companies we've funded.
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by pg 13y ago
All startups start by scratching the surface. Clerky doesn't plan to limit itself to startup deal docs forever.
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by pg 13y ago
False positive by the flamewar detector.
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by pg 13y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/11/yc-backed-clerky-helps-star...
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by pg 13y ago
That would be true if this were morally neutral. But when you're fixing an abuse that's justified by all participants as being standard practice, the right metaphor is not critical mass but a crack in dam.
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by pg 13y ago
There are two groups that benefit, portfolio companies and the VCs' LPs. The former get to keep more of the money that's invested, and the latter are no longer being charged for expenses in addition to the management fees they pay. In prac
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by pg 13y ago
Impressive move by Spark, who have now put other VCs in the awkward position of explaining why they don't do the same.
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by pg 13y ago
Alvy Brooks is not a YC startup, and we didn't ask them to do this. But it was cool with me, since they're donating the proceeds to Watsi. And the poster looks good.

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