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   by pg 13y ago

   As far as I can tell from a quick look, this isn't what I had in mind. I'd expect to see a grid I could start typing into, not a page of text. I was thinking of something for ordinary end users. So anything that tells users &quot
2. 152.▲
   by pg 13y ago

   I don't know specific numbers, but the companies we've funded say they get good people from them.
3. 153.▲
   by pg 13y ago

   I don't know about the others, but this is not a description of YC. The whole point of YC is to focus on real work. The first thing we tell the startups we accept is that they should build stuff and talk to users (and exercise and spe
4. 154.▲
   by pg 13y ago

   Yes. http://ycombinator.com/faq.html
5. 155.▲
   by pg 13y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336175
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   Wallpaper group(en.wikipedia.org)

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   by pg 13y ago

   That's probably the reason why the video of the conference was already taken offline today while I was watching it. No, we took the video offline because one of the speakers hadn't realized the talks were being filmed. It will b
8. 158.▲
   by pg 13y ago

   The event starts at about 37:20.
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   by pg 13y ago

   This is probably a new HN record in mistakenly ascribing bad intentions, which is pretty impressive.
10. 160.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    Really? It collapsed in April, and again in December, but it doesn't seem to be doing it now.
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    by pg 13y ago

    http://ycombinator.com/people.html
12. 162.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    No, Sam and I had already agreed by then that he'd take over. We just hadn't announced it yet. I do remember thinking though that this was going to be one of the things I missed least.
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    by pg 13y ago

    I didn't say we can always tell within minutes, just that we sometimes can. Also, the interview is not the only information we get. We've also read the application.
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    by pg 13y ago

    Each one has 2 or 3 partners and 20-something startups. The startups do group office hours with those partners, and when they request individual office hours those are the partners they get by default. Startups can also request office hou
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    by pg 13y ago

    Unfortunately like most of our anti-abuse measures it's surprisingly simple and would be easy to circumvent.
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    by pg 13y ago

    There was a point when we figured out how to stop spam submissions almost completely. That was probably what happened at the end of 2011. That would have been about the right time.
17. 167.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    I recently visited Homejoy's SF office and it was the social equivalent of drinking a double espresso. I've visited a lot of startup offices but I've seen few to match this one for concentrated energy.
18. 168.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    I haven't noticed any change. We've always hoped people would at least make some sort of prototype. That's how one explores ideas, or at least ideas about software.
19. 169.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    If you asked permission then it was fine. But some groups do it without asking, and if everyone came every day, we'd be out of space.
20. 170.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    Sure.
21. 171.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    We tell the alumni explicitly that they're obliged not to disclose what they see in applications, and that if they see an application that competes with them they should click on the "skip" button provided for this purpose.
22. 172.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    Sure. We have founders from I believe 22 different countries in the current batch.
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    by pg 13y ago

    There's a well known and clearly visible trend that more institutional (i.e. not friends and family) investment is moving later stage for "normal" software businesses. Actually the trend in the venture business is actually
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    by pg 13y ago

    We've had already launched companies applying almost since the beginning of YC. Airbnb, which was in the winter 2009 batch, had been launched for over a year. We make a conscious effort not to be influenced by early progress though, b
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    by pg 13y ago

    Yeah. There weren't many no-idea applications and on the whole they weren't good. One batch I forgot to enable them, and we just let them stay dead.
26. 176.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    We don't recommend applicants do this. Though we don't say anything when it happens, we do notice, and it makes us slightly less likely to accept such groups.
27. 177.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    Fixed, thanks.
28. 178.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    We should probably retire RFS 3.
29. 179.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    No, we stopped taking those several batches ago.
30. 180.▲
    by pg 13y ago

    Yes.