I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA

Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA by mrhektor on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:31AM (#12595624)

What is an ideal stage for a company to apply to YC? We've gotten together an excellent team and partners, and are just starting to build out the value prop. However, we don't have any customers / traction yet. Should we wait to apply, or apply right now?

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA by berpasan on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:10AM (#12596136)

Apply, you lose nothing. And apply again once you get more progress.

There is no ideal stage, but they'll fund the most promissing of them. The more your startup grows and the more times you apply (= persistance and staying alive), the more interesting your startups gets, hence better the odds.

At Quero we applied 3 times before being invited for an inverview and approved.

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Re:I Am Sam Altman, President of YC Group. AMA by mrhektor on Saturday October 01, 2016 @02:16PM (#12619140)

Thanks for the advice, I think we'll fill out an application and see what happens :)

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