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Was Y Combinator worth it?

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Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?

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Post by skmurphy »

tptacek wrote: post #119
skmurphy wrote: post #117

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My sense is that you data set is drawn primarily from 2010 to 2022, the current funding environment has different properties (closer to 2008-9 and 2001-3).

You think it's gotten easier , since 2022, to get an A-round term sheet without first getting a seed round?

I think it was easier 96-2000, harder 2001-4, easier 2005-7, harder 2008-2010, easier 2011-2022 (March), harder since March 2022.

I was suggesting you were judging the likely 2022-2025 funding environment based on 2011-2022 (March). I think startups will be better served, where they can, to bootstrap for the next two years than making plans that require funding to get started.

Reasonable men may differ but you have been at this for a while and experienced the dotcom boom, the meltdown, 2008, and the post 2011 boom.

Re: Was Y Combinator worth it?

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Post by brianwawok »

tptacek wrote: post #81
skeeter2020 wrote: post #77

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voluntarily not raised A rounds, or been unable to though?

Voluntarily not raised A rounds. What do people think happens if you don't raise after YC? YC isn't a conventional VC firm. They don't take board seats. They don't need you to shoot the moon (they'd like it if you do, but they're not structurally dependent on it). They are in fact pretty chill about you going on to bootstrap after your batch wraps up.

True, but a big reason to use YC is for the fundraising contacts. If you never go to A, you gave away a lot of your company for not a lot of money.
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