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Good: Hardly any entry of "Uber for X". That's a relief considering most "uber for X" are not viable businesses.
Bad: we are going after "billion dollar market". How do you even estimate the market size ?? why dream of revenue in billions why not millions. A small company can be a great company. Bad: 50%-60% companies from day 1 or day 2 do not have mission critical business. Their business is finding a problem for some kind of solution that claim to have.
BTW Does anyone knows how many off the record presentations, the batch official numbers are around (125).
Edit: one company dharma.io
observation: Good: Hardly any entry of "Uber for X". That's a relief considering most "uber for X" are not viable businesses. Bad: we are going after "billion dollar market". How do you even estimate the market size ?? why dream of revenue in billions why not millions. A small company can be a great company. Bad: 50%-60% companies from day 1 or day 2 do not have mission critical business. Their business is finding a…
observation: Good: Hardly any entry of "Uber for X". That's a relief considering most "uber for X" are not viable businesses. Bad: we are going after "billion dollar market". How do you even estimate the market size ?? why dream of revenue in billions why not millions. A small company can be a great company. Bad: 50%-60% companies from day 1 or day 2 do not have mission critical business. Their business is finding a…
I was expecting Slik[1] to be on this list. Anyone know why it was not included? There were quite a few articles about this company since it was founded by a 15 year old and a 16 year old [2]. There was also a WSJ article[3] today though I did not read it since it's paywalled. Anyway to read the article? [1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/get-automated-leads-from-a-data... [2] http://betakit.com/slik-ais-founder-the-yo…
Great to see such young entrepreneurs, who is the CEO? even in Delaware I think you must be over 18.
If I compare with the companies in the batch 5-6 years ago, the difference seems conspicuous. Where are the companies like Segment, AnyPerk that were struggling to find a product-market fit and presumably, were working on bad ideas? The companies who wouldn't have a good answer to what they're solving and why? There are bets, like Greo, Goosbump, which would find it hard to attain a sustainable revenue, but I think the numbers are still low.
Paul Graham used to insist that their first priority is the team, but I think they have inadvertently raised the bar. Or, it could mean that startup wisdom of building MVP, talking to users, has become mainstream to warrant the decline in the bad ideas.
Strange (51) First day and (57) second day = (108) total on the record companies only a single one on CryptoCurrency/Blockchain technology. BTW Does anyone knows how many off the record presentations, the batch official numbers are around (125). Edit: one company dharma.io
I was expecting Slik[1] to be on this list. Anyone know why it was not included? There were quite a few articles about this company since it was founded by a 15 year old and a 16 year old [2]. There was also a WSJ article[3] today though I did not read it since it's paywalled. Anyway to read the article? [1] https://blog.ycombinator.com/get-automated-leads-from-a-data... [2] http://betakit.com/slik-ais-founder-the-yo…
Strange (51) First day and (57) second day = (108) total on the record companies only a single one on CryptoCurrency/Blockchain technology. BTW Does anyone knows how many off the record presentations, the batch official numbers are around (125). Edit: one company dharma.io
there is dharma.io on second day.
Don't the normal dating sites already cater to everyone?