The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies

Re:The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies by wslh on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @10:17PM (#11031762)

Since nobody can accurately predict which companies will succeed, putting more companies in the pipeline will give you , generally speaking, more companies at the end.

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Re:The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies by stfu on Thursday February 04, 2016 @08:09AM (#11033666)

But in the end they are not able to pay the same amount of attention to 2000 startups vs 200. Or having really a hard time providing the same quality team.

Does that in the end mean that it doesn't really matter for the success of a YCombinator startup that they can just walk randomly into Paul Graham's office and ask for advice?

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Re:The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies by wslh on Friday February 05, 2016 @04:29PM (#11044784)

> But in the end they are not able to pay the same amount of attention to 2000 startups vs 200.

But this is the same issue everyone has when running their business! It is a problem of execution that you need to solve (or failed at) when you scale. Can you say that Google can't pay the same level of attention to their search engine once they started AdWords?

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Re:The new YC: As it tries to scale from 200 to 2,000 companies by nzoschke on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:03AM (#11033915)

You are right, it doesn't matter.

pg gives general advice to everyone on his blog. So do all the other YC partners.

The constant feedback you need to build a successful business comes from you, your cofounders, your team and most importantly your customers.

Investors, board members and advisors all help too.

But it's the people that live the business day in and day out that make it a success.

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