The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
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The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
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#2I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it?
My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience.
(edited last sentence for clarity).
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#3I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
lol yes this is a biased site.
Nonetheless, I so wish I could experience how it feels to be selected by yc.
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#4I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
I'd be curious to know if pg and gang do exit surveys to find out what founders thought was valuable and what they thought could be done different/better.
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#5I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
lol yes this is a biased site. Nonetheless, I so wish I could experience how it feels to be selected by yc.
Then get an idea going!
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#7I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
Even if you had a bad YC experience, it wouldn't be to your advantage to go public with it. You'd burn bridges for little gain.
The only people who seem to bad-mouth investors are ones who've already made more money than they know what to do with (Sabeer Bhatia style: http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2009/02/a-note-about-sa...). YC hasn't had any giant, mega-hits yet that would warrant a founder poisoning their relationship with the investment community.
Re: The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
#8I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
Even if you had a bad YC experience, it wouldn't be to your advantage to go public with it. You'd burn bridges for little gain. The only people who seem to bad-mouth investors are ones who've already made more money than they know what to do with (Sabeer Bhatia style: http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2009/02/a-note-about-sa... ). YC hasn't had any giant, mega-hits yet that would warrant a founder poisoning their…
The classic has to be the ArsDigita story. It seems that Philip Greenspun has removed the story from his site, but I found it elsewhere.
Re: The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
#9I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
I'd be curious to know if pg and gang do exit surveys to find out what founders thought was valuable and what they thought could be done different/better.
We don't do formal ones (we don't do anything formal), but we often ask alumni individually.
Re: The Value of the Y Combinator Experience
#10I like my knowledge to be well-balanced. Are there any founders who have gone through YC and not liked it? My current sample seems to indicate they all liked the experience. (edited last sentence for clarity).
I worry there are people who didn't like us. We've now funded around 300 people, and out of that many there are probably some. But no group has actually told me so far that they thought YC wasn't worth it.