What are the chances that yc to accept a startup which is in competition with a startup already accepted in a previous yc cycle? I mean, this could be a black ball, isnt'it?
Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
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Re: Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
#2YC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens.
There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor and DotCloud as PaaS's, etcetera.
There's a very, very long list of companies here that have lots more examples:
Re: Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
#3YC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens. There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor a…
thank you. In this case, maybe to compete an existing startup could be even better :))
Re: Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
#4YC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens. There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor a…
but... what about the component of fear described in this article? http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
Re: Ask HN: YC startups in competition?
#5YC is a numbers game, most of them are going to fail or fail to matter and it won't be because there was 2 or more doing similar things. There's also room for multiple winners in almost every industry as well on the off chance that happens. There are already YC startups competing: Exec and Pathjoy are doing house cleaning. Grid and Skysheet for online spreadsheets. Lots of ways to do photosharing. Heroku, AppHarbor a…
but... what about the component of fear described in this article? http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
YC is at the beginning or early stage of most startups, acquisition is usually years later and there's a million things that stop a startup reaching that point.
Just worry about your startup not someone else's.