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Y Combinator Challenged By Growing Seedcamp

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Re: Y Combinator Challenged By Growing Seedcamp

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Post by amirmc »

wheels wrote: post #5

I'm a fan of both, but it's quite premature to say that they're operating on the same order of magnitude at this point. • Seedcamp has only had one large exit (> $1M), whereas YC has had more than a dozen. • YC funds more companies per batch now than Seedcamp has funded total. • I'd guess that there's a two order of magnitude gap in the portfolio worth of YC vs. Seedcamp right now (given that AirBnb and Dropbox toget…

Great summary. You've essentially pointed out the differences in their models. YC funds a lot of companies per batch only operating in one location. Seedcamp only takes 10-20 teams at a time but runs short events all over Europe.

Of course, there are many many other differences but these are the most obvious.

Re: Y Combinator Challenged By Growing Seedcamp

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Post by reidbenj »

While YC may want to be the default choice for the best ideas, they also love and support the startup scene. Given they can only accept a fixed number of companies each class, they're cheering this. More startup support worldwide makes that many more bored cubicle-dwelling programmers worldwide think that much harder about leaving to pursue their dream, which benefits YC.

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Post by SoftwarePatent »

Journalism cliche alert: if there are a series of articles with the thesis "____ is the iPod-killer" or "____ is the new challenger to iPod", what that really means is that the iPod is the best. Replace iPod with Quake, or Y Combinator, or anything else that is best-in-class.

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Post by tryitnow »

rgoddard wrote: post #9
waterside81 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. The world of startups and incubation is not zero-sum.

The biggest competition for founders is not other startup funds, but regular employment.

Yes, and in that respect the startup world is definitely winning...
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