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79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

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Re: 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

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Post by dang »

xvedejas wrote: post #3

When do these start-ups typically decide to announce? When would we know all of the batch?

Demo Day is today and tomorrow for the S21 batch. I'm not sure if that means all the startups are on-the-record but for sure most will be.

Re: 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

I find it interesting that they have essentially migrated to the model that 500 startups pioneered.

YC has obviously been more successful and I'd chalk that up to it's early exclusivity - whereas 500 thought that the right approach was to spread the risk out.

With the early YC approach it's more akin to the power law of a venture fund and needs to hit just one or two home runs.

I'd be curious to look back in a decade to see if the returns plateau with this new approach.

Re: 79 Bay Area startups from Y Combinator's biggest Demo Day batch yet

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Post by mintone »

dang wrote: post #6
xvedejas wrote: post #3

When do these start-ups typically decide to announce? When would we know all of the batch?

Demo Day is today and tomorrow for the S21 batch. I'm not sure if that means all the startups are on-the-record but for sure most will be.

This is a meta comment but I think something is a bit squiffy with the timestamps on HN at the moment - your reply was apparently sent before the comment you are replying to and then the tooltip timestamp shows as you can see (and the reply page here says your comment was 17 hours ago).

https://i.imgur.com/1B7rmX1.png

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