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1. They are creatively challenged.
2. They are professionally challenged.
3. They are ethically challenged.
Suppose you get involved with them. What do you imagine would happen as soon as a difficult situation came up?
Personally, this tells me just enough to run, not walk, the other way.
Calm down. This is precisely how industries standardize. No one thought it was "sickening" when search engines pages started to imitate each other's blue title + grey descr + green url design. It was just an obviously good idea.
My first reaction was also, "hey plagiarism". But then again, on second thought, it'd be nice to have one application form to fill out, and then you just send them to different programs. Before the days of standardized applications forms for colleges, it was a pain in the ass to fill out the same types of questions. I think it's rather lazy of them. However, since they're all going for startups, it's rather likely th…
To anyone who knows the first thing about hackers, it's obvious how to do this: give full credit to YC, praise YC to the skies, point out that not everyone is suited to YC and argue that there's room for more than one. Differentiate yourself by being Seattle-focused or whatever.
what I don't understand is that why these people don't even try just changing around the wording at least just by a little bit... are they that uncreative and lazy? or at least (as brett mentions) give credit where it's due
becasue this is exactly what they intended to do. Have the entire YC community talk about it and cr8 some interest about their program. It seems to work.
That (unethical or merely incompetent?) is the sort of interesting debate they've created about themselves.
I know this is off-topic, but isn't asking for the applicants' ages illegal, as it can be used as a basis for discrimination? -- in the same way that asking if the applicants have children would probably be illegal.
In fact, the application is designed to discriminate against people who would be bad founders.
I know this is off-topic, but isn't asking for the applicants' ages illegal, as it can be used as a basis for discrimination? -- in the same way that asking if the applicants have children would probably be illegal.
This isn't a housing application-- discrimination is completely legal. In fact, the application is designed to discriminate against people who would be bad founders.
Look at how much you can learn about these people from this little bit of data: 1. They are creatively challenged. 2. They are professionally challenged. 3. They are ethically challenged. Suppose you get involved with them. What do you imagine would happen as soon as a difficult situation came up? Personally, this tells me just enough to run, not walk, the other way.
Look at how much you can learn about these people from this little bit of data: 1. They are creatively challenged. 2. They are professionally challenged. 3. They are ethically challenged. Suppose you get involved with them. What do you imagine would happen as soon as a difficult situation came up? Personally, this tells me just enough to run, not walk, the other way.
Well, if by "learn", you mean "extrapolate", "surmise", "conjecture" or "speculate". I don't think you can make such sweeping statements without knowing more.
What data could anyone possibly add that would change my thinking?
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