What Happens At Y Combinator

Post by aaronblohowiak » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 2:52 AM UTC

skowmunk wrote: post #130

yoden wrote: post #67

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I think it's mostly just not something typical YC applicants are interested... which is really weird, because health issues are going to be a huge concern in the western world for the next 50 years at least. Part of it may be that you need medical connections to do the much of the work. We work directly with a ton of different doctors/hospitals (for a team of only ~15 devs), and still have issues with building the ri…

That's true, the health care industry is a massive opportunity waiting to be tapped. Not just in the western world, even in the developing world, where the incidence of insurance is increasing. Many developing countries have had none or next to nothing health insurance till recently. But the market penetration of the healthy insurance is increasing (but still very low now). Because of that more people who could not a…

Post by nitrogen » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 7:42 AM UTC

HectorRamos wrote: post #123

pg wrote: post #84

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Nearly all have some idea or ideas. Some make it clear that they're not wedded to their idea, which is fine with us, actually.

I've been eyeing YC for a while and this post has convinced me to apply. I quit my job three months ago and have been doing consulting work in order to generate enough runway to finally dedicate ourselves fully to our own product. I think we will be done with all of our current gigs by november, so the Winter YC cycle looks VERY attractive right now. We have a couple of ideas, and it seems like we might have enough t…