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871.
by pg 14y ago
That convention is for company names that appear in headlines of stories. HN is a news site, not a customer support forum for companies funded by YC, and in fact the site guidelines explicitly ask that it not be used that way: http://ycomb
872.
by pg 14y ago
Must mean that we're trying to hide the fact that we funded them, right? It could only mean that.
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by pg 14y ago
This is an important point. Technological progress goes very, very far back. It's what people do. In fact that might be a better definition of humans than to call them the political animal.
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by pg 14y ago
I've made lots of individual mistakes, but I can't think of a class of advice I used to give that was mistaken.
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by pg 14y ago
Mark might have. I'm pretty sure neither Elon Musk nor Larry Page has.
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by pg 14y ago
Unfortunately I can't name names, because we consider applications confidential. But one advantage of all the other incubators that have sprung up is that when we miss a good group, they tend to get funded by one of the others, and as a res
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by pg 14y ago
If SendGrid's Twitter account had been compromised, they'd have told someone by now. So I guess this is real after all.
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by pg 14y ago
We're assuming these are fake, and that someone just got hold of their Facebook and Twitter passwords. On the other hand, I notice the same statement has appeared on their blog. So maybe it's real. Or maybe their blog was compromised too.
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by pg 14y ago
Last batch the median age was 27. http://blog.statwing.com/a-statistical-portrait-of-a-y-combi...
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by pg 14y ago
It's not so much that we don't have time as that hiring is not the startups' focus at the early stage where we spend most time with them. We mostly talk about what to build and how to get users.
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by pg 14y ago
This entire thesis is a red herring. I doubt we've ever had a conversation with a startup about what sort of benefits they should offer. Since the startups in a position to hire lots of people will presumably have raised money from later
882.
by pg 14y ago
Sort of, in the sense that we intentionally focus all our attention on the things that matter.
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by pg 14y ago
The dupe detector only looks at items in memory, which means the most recent 15k plus any that have been viewed recently.
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by pg 14y ago
If you imagine investors organized concentrically with the sort who physically show up on Demo Day at the center, I think the sweet spot for this type of thing is the next ring out: people who are not focused on startup investing, but who e
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by pg 14y ago
Wow, that's funny. As I was reading that, I was thinking "what a thoughtful comment for HN." At least I'm consistent. Twould be nice if you punctuated it properly though.
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by pg 14y ago
None. But I'm very conservative.
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by pg 14y ago
Here's an email I sent someone yesterday about it: I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it's derided as a toy. Just like microcomputers.
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Bitcoin rises(aljazeera.com)
227 points by pg 14y ago|257 comments
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by pg 14y ago
Somewhat. Depends how good the predictors of failures are. If they're strong enough, it doesn't matter how many promising signs there are. But you're right that this is a perilous move. We only did it because we had to, and I'd like to e
890.
by pg 14y ago
Probably. Even if we kept the new, tighter filter we'd still accept more groups, because the number of applications continues to rise.
891.
by pg 14y ago
We may try that one day. We've been marking such comments for a while in case we do.
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by pg 14y ago
We were already claiming we could pick the top 84 out of ~3000. It's not that much harder to narrow it down to 46.
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by pg 14y ago
Between batches we spent a lot of time systematically trying to identify the predictors of failure. Previously we only tried to look for predictors of success. And they are not simply complements.
894.
by pg 14y ago
"There are already signs of paring back. In December, Y Combinator’s Graham wrote about his accelerator’s decision to reduce its class size, from 84 companies in the summer 2012 class to less than 50 in the current session." This was nothin
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by pg 14y ago
It embarrasses me to see comments like this getting upvoted on HN. There is no information in it, just inflammatory language. When this sort of comment prevails on HN, we'll have sunk to the ground state of forums.
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by pg 14y ago
The people who propose these inane conspiracy theories always forget one critical component: why the acquirer was such a willing patsy.
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by pg 14y ago
In case anyone is confused, the original title was "Schumpeter on the Cypress Bailout." Incidentally, to those who complain about mods changing titles: we fix stuff like this constantly. All day long we quietly fix breakage, and every mont
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Codecademy Stories(codecademy.com)
26 points by pg 14y ago|5 comments
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by pg 14y ago
Screen resolutions have been increasing.
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by pg 14y ago
That's an amusing idea. It would be fine with me if that variant evolved. But it would have seemed frivolous if we'd proposed that.

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