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Re:The Next Y Combinator Class Will Be 80 Strong by throwaway1979 on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @12:46PM (#4008620)
"I bet the applications are increasing at an increasing rate, last time they had 50% increase, soon it will be 100%, with all the publicity around YC."

I'll take that bet. You're assuming that there is an infinite pool of quality applicants.

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Re:The Next Y Combinator Class Will Be 80 Strong by Jun8 on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @12:54PM (#4008662)
Well, yeah, infinite in an engineering sense. Since YC applications are international, you can have tens of thousands of team applying. Based on the acceptance rate this time they had ~4250 teams, which should already strain the screening process. This could easily go up to 10K.
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Re:The Next Y Combinator Class Will Be 80 Strong by mibbitier on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @01:55PM (#4008965)
Now you don't need an idea to apply, perhaps there is.
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