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Re:The Hardware Renaissance by hnriot on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:57PM (#4689271)
8% of such a tiny sample isn't anywhere near close to being able to extract trends. In such a volatile arena as investor funding even if the number of hardware companies doubled from 4% last year to 8% this, it's still noise.

We (as a tech community) need to careful thinking so small. YC is tiny. If the article was the result of talking to other investors and a similar trend was identified across the board it might be newsworthy, but to anyone with any statistical background this isn't a trend, it's noise. That doesn't mean there isn't a trend, it just means this isn't in and of itself, evidence of one.

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Re:The Hardware Renaissance by sachingulaya on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @05:54PM (#4690541)
The sample space is all the startups that submit applications to YC--not the ones that are accepted.
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Re:The Hardware Renaissance by 001sky on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @09:18PM (#4691194)
Out of 84 companies, 7 were making hardware. On the whole they've done better than the companies that weren't.

Perhaps you could elaborate? This text 'sample' does not appear to play nice with your comment.

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