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Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience

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Re: Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

clicks wrote: post #4

I wonder how the YC guys feel about the abundance of "how to get accepted to YC" articles. Just as you can prepare for the SAT you can now prepare for the YC tests -- there are a lot of examples of accepted applications, videos, thoughts from founders, etc. just like this very submission. The point is, there is probably less differentiation in the new pool of applicants in terms of their submission applications which…

If a metric is easy to game the people who rely on that metric should want to become aware of that.

Re: Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience

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Post by TimothyE »

clicks wrote: post #4

I wonder how the YC guys feel about the abundance of "how to get accepted to YC" articles. Just as you can prepare for the SAT you can now prepare for the YC tests -- there are a lot of examples of accepted applications, videos, thoughts from founders, etc. just like this very submission. The point is, there is probably less differentiation in the new pool of applicants in terms of their submission applications which…

Although I can't speak for YC, I can provide some info from the applicant side, specifically those outside the existing community.As an Aussie putting in an application for W13 we're geographically and somewhat ideologically separated. We've spent the last 3 months getting to beta and reading these articles is what's spurred our interest to apply. For those outside the immediate community, it's a great bridge, plus what zeckalpha said!

Re: Lollipuff's Y Combinator Experience

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Post by pstack »

I'm really surprised by the "auction" foundation. That seems like a really dated internet fad, at this point.

I built and ran a large (not eBay large, but 100k+ members and maybe $6m in transactions) niche auction site and community for about a dozen years and I recognized that interest in the whole "auction" thing was dying out about the same time eBay probably did. Only difference is eBay had the resources and interest in trying to pivot (something they're still trying to do) and I was ready to move on to something else entirely.

If you can still find just the right niche, there's probably an avenue, but for the most part, I think there's an uphill challenge against the bias of most users against auctions (what with so many other cheap outlets that have usurped everything short of collectables).

Will be really curious to see how this plays out, in and after 2013.

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